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Char Minar                                           Golconda Fort

                        THE MUGHAL PERIOD                           construction. Most structures were decorated with
             Mughal architecture is the distinctive Indo-Islamic    geometrical  designs.  Quranic  verses  were  also
             architectural style that developed in northern and     engraved  on  some.  In  a  few  buildings,  jalis  or
             central  India  under  the  patronage  of  Mughal      trellis work was done.
             emperors from the 16th to the 18th century. It is      Akbar
             a  remarkably  symmetrical  and  decorative  amal-     Early Mughal architecture first developed during
             gam of Persian, Turkish and Indian architecture.       the  reign  of  Akbar  the  Great  (1556–1605)  who
             The  Mughals  were  also  renowned  for  creating      commissioned  palaces,  mosques,  gardens  and
             exquisite gardens in the Persian charbagh layout,      mausoleums. The architecture was a synthesis of
             in which the quadrilateral gardens were divided        Persian,  Turkic,  Timurid  Iranian,  Central  Asian
             by  walkways  or  flowing  water  into  four  smaller   and  Indian  Hindu  and  Muslim  styles.  Akbari
             parts.                                                 architecture is also remarkable for its large scale
             Features : The arch and the dome continued to          use  of  sandstone,  evident  both  in  the  construc-
             be  used.  Full  domes  became  very  common.          tion  of  Fatehpur  Sikri,  Akbar’s  royal  city  and
             Tombs  began  to  be  placed  on  stone  platforms,    Akbar’s  own  tomb  at  Sikandra.  The  mosque  at
             enclosed  in  geometrical  gardens  with  running      Fatehpur  Sikri  boasts  the  Buland  Darwaza,  the
             water. This was the ‘chahr bagh’ pattern. Some         largest gateway of its kind in India. Early Mughal
             tombs  and  mosques  had  minarets.  Red  sand-        mosques  had  massive  enclosed  courtyards  and
             stone  and  white  marble  were  used  for             domed shallow prayer halls.





















                        Madrasah of Mahmud Gawan                                         Agra Fort

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