Taj Mahal a piece of art known as love symbol all over the world. The monument for whom people visit India from different countries. This historic place has its own popularity and counted in wonders of the world. Today, we relate you with Interesting Facts about Taj Mahal
Interesting Facts about Taj Mahal
- According to Hindus, Taj Mahal is a Shiva temple, whose real name is “Tejomahaly”. Because in any Muslim country there is not such a building whose name was Castle(mahal). The castle (mahal) is not the Muslim word. There are much more such things.
- Shah Jahan was married seven times and he made Taj Mahal in name of his fourth wife who died while giving birth to her fourteenth child. After her death, Shah Jahan married with her sister.
- Taj Mahal held the 3rd position in Top 7 wonders of the World.It takes 22years to build Taj Mahal and about 22,000 labours built it.
- In 1632 an amount of 3.2 crore rupees was used.If today we want build Taj Mahal it takes an amount of 6800 crore rupees.
- Do you know that Taj Mahal is stable on wooden pillars which require moisture to stand strong and they get that moisture from Yamuna river.
- Taj Mahal is the famous monument whom most of the people see every day and around 12,000 people watch it daily.
- The Taj Mahal was built by 28 different types of stones.The marble used in it is from Rajasthan, China, Afghanistan and Tibet.
- World War II, 1971 Indo-Pak war, and after the 9/11 attacks Taj mahal was covered with bamboo rims. To prevent damage to the Taj Mahal.
- After becoming white Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan’s dream was to build he same type of black Taj mahal. But his son Aurangzeb imprisoned him in the house and he could not fulfil his dream.
So, these are Interesting Facts about Taj Mahal
