Taj Mahal the most recent but one of the most beautiful wonder of the wortd

‘ Taj Mahal the most recent but
one of the most beautiful wonder of the wortd, was built by the Fifth Mughal
Emperor Shah Jahan Who was ruled in India from 1628 to 1658 In memory of his
second wife ‘Mumtaz Mahar Mumtaz was a Muslim Persian Princess died in child-
bed in 1630 while giving birth to their fourteenth chil Shah Jahan began to build the
Taj Mahal (Usually translated Crown Place’) The following year. It took twenty two
years and the work of over tventy thousands workers and craftsmen to finish and
One mousand elephants were needed to carned out the matenals from all over
India to the tomb’s site in Agra on the bank of the Yamuna River about 120 miles
south of New Delhi The famous white marbles dome with its four flanking minarets
rise from a white marble terrace atop a red sandstone base Inside the dome is the
jewel-inlaid cenotaph of the queen The grave of Shah Jahan was added to it later