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　Taji Mahal （India）

Taj Mahal is the mausoleum where the 5th generation emperor Shah Jahan of the Mogul Empire which was governing India made the death of queen MUMUTAZU MAHARU mourn for and build 350 years ago. A large amount of expense started the mausoleum made in white marble.
　Design 　The emperor 　Coffin
The whole of this building is symmetrical to the figure reflected in the pond which was made by right-and-left symmetry (symmetry) and extended in front of the building. Moreover, since Islam has forbidden idol worship, it is decorated by the Arabic script of the Koran by which elephant cancer was carried out to the wall of a building with the stone etc. Although the emperor loved only the queen uniquely as a Muslim therefore, he spent money on construction of a mausoleum too much, and has been confined in an AGURA castle by the son. It is said that it was looking at Taj Mahal where a queen sleeps from there every day. In order to place temporary coffin of an emperor and a queen in the center of the first floor of a mausoleum and to prevent a thief, the real coffin is stored in the basement of the right under. An emperor's coffin is horizontally placed so that it may nestle up to a central queen's coffin.


　 India

The grave for the dearest queen
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Cultural heritage 1983



Garden: 560m of north and south,
300m of east and west
Mausoleum: 65m in height
95m of right and left