Who actually built Taj Mahal?

Answer 1

The Taj Mahal (Hindi: ताज महल, Persian, Urdu: تاج محل), is a monument located in Agra, India, constructed between 1631 and 1654 by a workforce of 20,000. The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned its construction as a mausoleum for his favourite wife, Arjumand Bano Begum, who is better known as Mumtaz Mahal.

Shah Jahan, who commissioned the monument, was a prolific patron with effectively limitless resources. He had previously created the gardens and palaces of Shalimar in honour of his wife, Mumtaz. After her death in childbirth (she had already borne him fourteen children) Shah Jahan was reportedly inconsolable, and soon after he began construction of the Taj Mahal. His lavish aesthetic and romantic nature is apparent in every aspect of the Taj Mahal. Visiting Agra in 1663, the French traveller François Bernier gave the following description of the Taj Mahal and Shah Jahan's motive for building it:

I shall finish this letter with a description of the two wonderful mausoleums which constitute the chief superiority of Agra over Delhi. One was erected by Jehan-guyre [sic] in honour of his father Ekbar; and Chah-Jehan raised the other to the memory of his wife Tage Mehale, that extraordinary and celebrated beauty, of whom her husband was so enamoured it is said that he was constant to her during life, and at her death was so affected as nearly to follow her to the grave". Soon after its completion, Shah Jahan was deposed and put under house arrest at nearby Agra Fort by his son Aurangzeb. Legend has it that he spent the remainder of his days gazing through the window at the Taj Mahal. Upon Shah Jahan's death, Aurangzeb buried him in the Taj Mahal next to his wife.

The name Taj comes from Persian, the language of the Mughal court, meaning crown, and Mahal means palace. Most sources suggest that Taj Mahal is a shorter variant of Mumtaz Mahal, the nickname of Arjumand Banu Begum, meaning First Lady of the Palace. As early as 1663, the French traveller François Bernier referred to the place as Tage Mehale.

Answer 2

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned its construction as a mausoleum for his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It was constructed between 1631 and 1654 by a workforce of 20,000.

Answer 3

Shah Jahan for his wife Mahal. He was Moghul Emperor of India

Answer 4

Factoid: The son of the guy who built this temple for his wife, actually put the casket, for lack of word I cant think of right now, off center. If you see the whole building, its actually symmetrical. But the son hated the father and did that to hurt him. And I believe the father was never able to actually put the body centered like he had planned....

Answer 5

king of Iran,,shah Jahan

Answer 6

Shah Jehan , as a monument to his wife.

Answer 7

The best of India's craftsmen who got their hands cut-off afterwards so they wouldn't build anything more magnificient...or just anything apperantly...

Answer 8

hundreds of skilled workers who had their hands cut of so they couldnt built or cpy the beauty again

Answer 9

workers from india