Taj+Mahal


 * __Taj Mahal por Sara Quintana__**

**__ 1.- DESCRIPTION __**
 * Built: 1631 y 1654** year of construction **
 * **Location : Agra,India,Asia **
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 * **Type of structure: **
 * Taj Mahal
 * it is a mosque of tomb in the city of Agra that is in the federal state of Uttar Pradesh. Taj Mahal is one of the more famous places of interest to India well totally. The mosque has 22 cupolas, is of 58 meters of stop and was constructed in a platform of 100 meters of size 100 marble times. The words Taj Mahal mean so many crowns as of palace. Before the mosque a garden of approximately 18 hectares of size with the numerous cypresses extends in whos center an oblong water washbasin was placed. The absolute sovereign Shah Jahan let Taj Mahal construct, around his main wife Mumtaz Mahal died to memory. Of the works of construction he began in 1631 and he lasts during 17 years. More than 20,000 workers they were associate in the construction, between you numerous architects. The perfect mixture of the Indian and Persian architecture must have Persian architect Ustad Ahmad Lahori who was associate of decisive way in this construction. Materials of construction was gone to look for totally of Asia, for the transport more than 1000 elephants were used frequently. The materials used more often for the construction of Taj Mahal were marble, red arenaceous stone, semiprecious stones and precious stones as diamonds, jade, sapphires (in all 28 different one). The marble is decorated almost in each place with models, in addition precious stones and semiprecious stones were still used. According to an extended history one second black marble mosque had still to be constructed. This one had to be the last place of calmness for the absolute sovereign Shah Jahan, nevertheless she never was constructed. Shah Jahan died in 1666 like prisoner, since to his it had deprived it son to be able and bestattet became next to his main wife Mumtaz Mahal. From 1983 Taj Mahal it belongs to cultural heap world-wide UNESCO. Because of its harmonic proportions in Mogulstil this belongs to the most considerable and more beautiful constructions of the Islamic art. Taj Mahal is not only a place of popular interest for tourists, but it also serves Muslim citizens as place as oration and is visited often by Indian parejitas that have indeed married. A visit of marriages recently married is due to fortify its love and to provide one long one, a dear happy relation.


 * __2.- WHAT ARE THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OR USES OF THE STRUCTURE? __**

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 1ºFinial: it ends ornamented of the cupolas, also used in pagodas Asian. 2ºDecoration of loto: scheme of the flower of loto carved in the cupolas. 3ºAcebollada cupola: also call " amrud", typical of the architecture of the Islam, and that would be used later in Russia. 4ºDrum: it bases cylindrical of the cupola, that serves as support and formal transition on the plinth of the building. 5ºGuldasta: decorative needle fixed the walls on the brink of madness lifting. 6ºChattri: kiosco of columns and cupola, also used in isolated form or exempts like commemorative monument. 7ºBorders: panels of closing on arcades. 8ºHandwriting: verse streamlined writing of the Corán on the main arches. 9ºArches or vestibules: also calls pishtaq (Persian word for the exentos vestibules). 10ºDices: decorative panels flanking the main walls.
 * __3.- WHAT DIFFERENT PARTS ARE THERE? Elements of the structure... __**

Materials The principal material used for the construction is a white marble brought in wagons thrown by oxen, buffaloes, elephants and camels from Makrana's quarries, in Rajastán placed to more than 300 km from distance. The most used second material is the red sandstone, employee for the construction of the majority of the palaces and Moslem forts previous to Sha Jahan. This material was in use in combination with the black marble in the walls, the principal access, the mosque and the jawab. In addition the Taj Mahal includes worn materials of the whole Asia. More than 1.000 elephants were used to transport materials of construction from the limits of the continent. The jasper was brought of the Punjab, and the crystal and the jade from China. From the Tibet turquoises were brought and from Afghanistan the lapislazuli, whereas the sapphires were coming from Ceylon and the carnelia of Arabia. In total 28 types of gems and semiprecious stones were in use for doing the inlays in the marble.
 * __4.- WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS MADE OF? __** **CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS USED ** //: //


 * __5.- STRESSES IN THE STRUCTURE __****: ** tension, compression, torsion, bending, shearing




 * __.- STABILITY, RIGIDITY AND RESISTANCE __**
 * This structure is made rigid by : the marble
 * **This structure is made stable by :the construction **
 * **<span style="background-color: white; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 9.5pt;">This structure is made resistant by :the marble **


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 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">9.- CURIOSITIES __**

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