Photography & amazing architecture, Sikandra Akbar Mausoleum & my first morning at the Taj Mahal, India
The artwork at this place is just astonishing, impressive from the outside but even more so at the Mausoleum entrance.
So, if you take a trip from Delhi to Agra you should stop and spend a couple of hours at this architecture marvel, a stop you want regret.
© Gunther Deichmann - Sikandra Akbar Mausoleum entrance,
women & child leaving the Tomb.
The buildings are constructed mainly from a deep red sandstone, enriched with features in white marble. Decorated inlaid panels of these materials and a black slate adorn the tomb and the main gatehouse. Panel designs are geometric, floral and calligraphic, and prefigure the more complex and subtle designs later incorporated in Itmad-ud-Daulah's Tomb.
© Gunther Deichmann - the walk way outside
the Sikandra Akbar Mausoleum, I was getting ready
for an architectural shot when all of a sudden this
women appeared from nowhere.
The Tomb of Akbar the Great is an important architectural masterpiece set in 48 Ha (119 acres) of grounds in Sikandra a suburb of Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
The third Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great (1542 – 1605), himself commenced its construction in around 1600, according to Tartary tradition to commence the construction of one's tomb during one's lifetime. Akbar himself planned his own tomb and selected a suitable site for it, after his death, Akbar's son Jahangir completed the construction in 1605-1613.
one morning at the Taj Mahal....
© Gunther Deichmann - my first morning at the
Taj Mahal, Muslim Women at the Mosque
