The Taj Mahal is considered one of the most beautiful
architectural monuments in the World and was built by the Indian emperor Shah
Jahan.
The Emperor had married a girl named Arjumand Begum
in 1612 while he was a prince and she was the only one of his many wives whom he truly
loved. He gave her the name Mumtaz Mahal or "beloved ornament of the
palace."
It is said that the Taj Mahal was built by the
Emperor as a tribute for their love. It is what Mumtaz Mahal had told him to do as one
of her last wishes while she lay on her deathbed after giving birth to their fourteenth
child in 1631.
The Emperor began the construction of the
monument six months after her death and had over 20000 of the most gifted craftsmen and
artists from all over the world work on it for 22 long years. The tale goes that after
the Taj Mahal had been constructed the emperor had the thumbs of all the artists who had
worked on the monument cut off, so they would not be able to create another monument
like the Taj Mahal.
After the monument had been created the
body of Mumtaz Mahal was shifted and placed in it; and when the Emperor died in
href="http://www.tajmahal.org.uk/shah-jahan.html">1658, he was also buried
in it beside his wife.
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