Agrawas the imperial capital of Akbar in the mid
sixteenth-century.The fort here was one of the most powerful of north India
since early times. In fifteen hundred and sixty five, Emperor Akbar ordered the
reconstruction of this fort. The fort has palaces of Emperor Akbar, Jahangir
and Shah Jahan. The most prominent amongst all the structures are the white
marble buildings of Shah Jahan. In
fifteen hundred and seventy one Emperor Akbar decided to build a new capital
city. A magnificent city was built at a site not very far from the previous
capital at Agra. It was called Fatehpur Sikri. Fatehpur Sikri is one of the
best ordered and symmetrically laid out cities of the entire medieval world. The Taj Mahal was built in sixteen hundred and
forty eight by the Mughal emperor ShahJahan in memory of his beloved wife Arjumand
Banu Begum ,known to the word as Mumtaz Mahal.The construction of the Taj Mahal
was a stupendous engineering feat. It is built of marble and finely inlaid with
semi-precious stones. Twenty thousand workers and master craftsmen laboured for
seventeen years to erect this magnificent edifice.
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