12"x12" White Marble Taj Mahal Collectible Replica Handicraft Home Decor Gift

Your browser does not support JavaScript.To view this page, enable JavaScript if it is disabled or upgrade your browser. Click Here. Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE! White Marble Taj Mahal Collectible Replica Handicraft Home Decoration GiftsAbout Item The origin of the name "Taj Mahal" is not clear. Court histories from Shah Jehan's reign only call it the rauza (tomb) of Mumtaz Mahal. It is generally believed that "Taj Mahal" (usually translated as either "Crown Palace" or "Crown of the Palace") is an abbreviated version of her name, Mumtaz Mahal. The construction of this marble masterpiece is credited to the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan who erected this mausoleum in the memory of his beloved wife, Arjumand Bano Begum, popularly known as Mumtaz Mahal, who died in AH 1040 (AD 1630). Her last wish to her husband was "to build a tomb in her memory such as the world had never seen before". Thus emperor Shah Jahan set about building this fairytale like marvel. The construction of Taj Mahal was started in AD 1631 and completed at the end of 1648 AD. For seventeen years, twenty thousand workmen are said to be employed on it daily, for their accommodation a small town, named after the deceased empress-'Mumtazabad, now known as Taj Ganj, was built adjacent to it. Amanat Khan Shiraz was the calligrapher of Taj Mahal, his name occurs at the end of an inscription on one of the gates of the Taj. Poet Ghyasuddin had designed the verses on the tombstone, while Ismail Khan Afridi of Turkey was the dome maker. Muhammad Hanif was the superintendent of Masons. The designer of Taj Mahal was Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. The material was brought in from all over India and central Asia and it took a fleet of 1000 elephants to transport it to the site. The central dome is 187 feet high at the center. Red sandstone was brought from Fatehpur Sikri, Jasper from Punjab, Jade and Crystal from China, Turquoise from Tibet, Lapis Lazuli and Sapphire from Sri Lanka, Coal and Carnelian from Arabia and diamonds from Panna. In all 28 kind of rare, semi precious and precious stones were used for inlay work in the Taj Mahal. The chief building material, the white marble was brought from the quarries of Makrana, in distt. Nagaur, Rajasthan. Size 12 X 12 inch Fedex Air shipping freeWe only accept PAYPAL.Payment is to be completed within 3 days of the purchase.Please contact us if you can't make the payment promptly.Otherwise, we will reserve the right to relist the item and the unpaid item report will be made correspondingly. Shipping& Insurance PolicyWe ship usually same day after receiving payment.We will offer the tracking no. u can track it during the whole shipping process. After shipment please check your tracking number after same day and please contact us in any query regarding your package as soonest.Asyou receive my parcel , you must open the parcel in front of the FedEx deliveryboy to ensure all the items are intact nd not damaged. If any item is foundbroken , and not checked at the time of delivery in front of delivery boy , noinsurance claim can be claimed . Its a FedEx ruleif you found broken item please send damaged item photo's urgentlyReturn Shipping will be paid by the buyer.If there is any import duty, taxes and vat at the destination, it will be paid by the buyerPackaging:We pack product export packed with bubble paper, shredded paper and cartoon box. It will not get damaged on the way. Your browser does not support JavaScript.To view this page, enable JavaScript if it is disabled or upgrade your browser.