who built Tajmahal?

Question

India

Answer 1

Actually, a lot of poor, overworked and underfed laborers built the thing. Shah Jehan just ordered the thing to be built.

Answer 2

The Taj Mahal was built between 1630 & 1653 by Emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.

Answer 3

You already have the answer, the BBC did a story that an exact replica, was planned to be built opposite for the Shah when he died, but in black marble.... this has since turned out to be just a rumour and not fact, shame has the computer generated pictures of the two on each site of the river was amazing

Answer 4

Shāh Jahān, who commissioned the monument, was a prolific patron with effectively limitless resources. He had previously created the gardens and palaces of Shalimar in honor of his wife, Mumtaz. After her death in childbirth (she had already borne him fourteen children) Shah Jahan was reportedly inconsolable; the court chronicler 'Abd al-Hamid Lahawri tells us that before her death the emperor had but twenty white hairs in his beard, but thereafter many more.[1] The contemporary court chroniclers paid an unusual amount of attention to Mumtaz Mahal's death and Shah Jahan's grief at her demise, and it may well be that the traditional "love-story" associated with the construction of the Taj has some basis in fact.[2] The Taj Mahal was begun not long after Mumtaz's death in 1631. The principal mausoleum was completed seventeen years later, and the surrounding buildings and garden five years after that. 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"[3].

Answer 5

Taj Mahal (Urdu/Persian: تاج محل; Hindi: ताज महल)

The fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan had the Taj Mahal built in Agra, India on the bank of the River Yamunato in memory of his second wife, Arjuman Banu Begum (Mumtaz Mahal), a Muslim Persian princess. It took 22 years (1631 - 1653) to construct with a workforce of 22,000.

Mumtaz Mahal died while accompanying her husband in Burhanpur in a campaign to crush a rebellion after giving birth to their 14th child. The death so devastated the emperor that all his hair and beard were said to have grown snow white in a few months.

Ustad Isa and Isa Muhammad Effendi trained by the Ottoman architect Koca Mimar Sinan Agha are frequently credited with a key role in the architectural design of the complex, but in fact there is little evidence to support this tradition, and the connection with Sinan (who died in 1588) is clearly a fairy-tale.
'Puru' from Benarus, Persia (Iran), has been mentioned as the supervising architect in Persian language texts. The main dome was designed by Ismail Khan from the Ottoman Empire, considered to be the premier designer of hemispheres and builder of domes of that age. Qazim Khan, a native of Lahore, cast the solid gold finial that crowned the Turkish master's dome.
Chiranjilal, a lapidary from Delhi, was chosen as the chief sculptor and mosaicist. Amanat Khan from Persian Shiraz, Iran was the chief calligrapher (this fact is attested on the Taj Mahal gateway itself, where his name has been inscribed at the end of the inscription). Muhammad Hanif was the supervisor of masons.
Mir Abdul Karim and Mukkarimat Khan of Shiraz, Iran handled finances and the management of daily production.

The creative team included sculptors from Bukhara, calligraphers from Syria and Persia, inlayers from southern India, stonecutters from Baluchistan, a specialist in building turrets, another who carved only marble flowers — thirty seven men in all formed the creative nucleus.

You can learn more about it from the links below.

Answer 6

It was built by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan in 1631 in memory of his second wife Mumtaz Mahal, a Muslim Persian princess.

Here's a link that talks more about it. -best wishes.

Answer 7

Emporer Shahjahan in the memory of his wife Mumtajmahal

Answer 8

Hey, that's easy.
Mughal Emperor, Shahjahan built it.

Answer 9

A king for his deceased wife

Answer 10

I have been there, awesome curries, it's in manchester I believe :)