The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble tomb on the south bank of the Yamuna waterway in the Indian city of Agra. It was charged in 1632 by the Mughal ruler, Shah Jahan (ruled from 1628 to 1658), to house the burial place of his #1 spouse, Mumtaz Mahal. The burial chamber is the focal point of a 17-hectare (42-acre)complex, which incorporates a mosque and a visitor house, and is set in conventional nurseries limited on three sides by a crenelated wall.
Development of the tomb was basically finished in 1643 however work progressed forward with different periods of the venture for an additional 10 years. The Taj Mahal complex is accepted to have been finished completely in 1653 at an expense assessed at an opportunity to be around 32 million rupees, which in 2015 would be roughly 52.8 billion rupees (U.S. $827 million). The development project utilized exactly 20,000 craftsmans under the direction of a leading body of planners drove by the court engineer to the sovereign, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.
The Taj Mahal was assigned as an UNESCO World Legacy Site in 1983 for being “the gem of Muslim craftsmanship in India and one of the generally respected show-stoppers of the world’s legacy”. It is viewed by a larger number of people as the best illustration of Mughal engineering and an image of India’s rich history.
