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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prasad♠" data-source="post: 11776220" data-attributes="member: 247581">     <img src="http://englishrussia.com/images/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />       The whole complex is surrounded by the wall made of red stone. At the  entrance there are three queues: for men, women and VIP. Real Taj Mahal  is always better than on photos or in movies. The huge building made of  white marble surrounded by four minarets. On the walls are Koran suras  beautifully written with black marble. The minarets are a bit inclined  outside, they say it's done to prevent them from falling on the building  in case of an earthquake.       We are not sure how it can be explained but the most beautiful  buildings of India are not palaces and temples, but mausoleums,  cenotaphs whatever they are called, made in honor of the dead. Taj Mahal  is one of them. Beloved wife of Shah-Djahan, the Moguls emperor, died  while giving the birth to their 14th baby. He was so stricken with  grief that he decided to build the mausoleum that will be the best in  the world, the one that would make the sun and the moon cry.       20 thousand of Indian workers were building the mausoleum for 22 years.  This number doesn't include sculptors from Bukhara, calligraphers from  Syria and Persia, mosaic workers from South India and other masters from  Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan... Instead of ordinary bamboo, the scaffolds  around the mausoleum are of bricks. They were so huge that taking them  to pieces took years. The legend says that the shah let everyone who  took bricks might never return them back, by the morning no scaffolds  remained. To carry the marble blocks they made a 15 km mount.       However the shah had no time to enjoy the mausoleum. Soon after the  construction was ready his son put him to prison in the nearby fortress.  So he was staring at the monument from the prison windows. When he died  he was buried next to his wife in Taj Mahal.       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />       One may get to Taj Mahal through these gates.       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-11.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           Pool at the mausoleum       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-13.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-14.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     In all its splendor       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-15.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Upper part       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-16.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />       Patterns on the marble       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-17.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />       Along all the building - semiprecious stones patterns. The needed piece  was cut out, and the hole for it in the marble to insert it. So they  did thousands of times.       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-18.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-19.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Vertical patterns - suras from Koran made with black marble.       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-20.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     The closer you come the more details you may notice.       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-21.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     On the left is an active mosque. On the right is an identical building.       <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-22.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     <img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/tajmahal/tajmahal002-23.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </blockquote>

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