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Taj Mahal is a magestic tomb and was built by Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor(1628-1658)
and he constructed it to hold the tomb of his wife; Mumtaz Mahal. More than 20,000 workers were employed from many different places(India, Persia, the Ottoman Empire, and Europe) to finish the monument. It costed 32 million rupees to build. It is located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
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Taj Mahal was completed in 1643, but other phases of the project continued after 1643.
Mumtaz Mahal's tomb is flanked by two mosques -- one is a prerequisite, but the other is a dummy built only in the interests of symmetry. |
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