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Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daula | BABY TAJ | Agra Heritage Walk (Links to all episodes in description)

Links to all the episodes of our AGRA Heritage series are given below :) AGRA Heritage Walk - Trailer -    • Agra Heritage Tour - 1 min Teaser :) Full ...   Shree Ji Mishthan Bhandar - Breakfast at Agra -    • Breakfast at Shree Ji Mishthan Bhandar | A...   Agra Fort | Guided Tour - HINDI | Red Fort | Akbar Fort -    • Agra Fort FULL Tour in HINDI | Red Fort | ...   Baby Taj - tomb of Itimad ud Daulah -    • Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daula | BABY TAJ | Agra H...   Mehtab Bagh (Black Taj Mahal) -    • Mehtab Bagh | Black Taj Mahal | Agra Herit...   Bajrang Chaat Bhandar at Agra -    • Bajrang Chaat Bhandar - Street Food Cart |...   TAJ MAHAL -    • Taj Mahal FULL Tour in Hindi | Agra Herita...   Pietra dura on Taj Mahal -    • Pietra dura Marble-inlay at Taj Mahal | U....   Tomb of Mariam Zamani (Jodhabai / Harkha Bai / Heer Kunwari) -    • Tomb of Mariam-uz-Zamani - Jodha Bai | Agr...   Akbar's Tomb - Sikandara -    • The tomb of AKBAR - Sikandara | Agra Herit...   The Red Taj - Hessing's Tomb -    • The Red Taj - Hessing's Tomb | Hindi | Agr...   Halwa Parantha -    • Halwa Parantha at Agra | Hindi | Agra Heri...   Dargah Abul Ula and Qawwali by Rafi Bharti Qawwal -    • Dargah Hazrat Syedna Shah Ameer Abul Ula (...   FULL PLAYLIST -    • Agra Heritage Tour - 1 min Teaser :) Full ...   ----- Here's Part 3 of our new Heritage Tour series as we explore Agra :) (text from wikipedia) Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah (I'timād-ud-Daulah kā Maqbara) is a Mughal mausoleum in the city of Agra in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Often described as a "jewel box", sometimes called the "Baby Tāj", the tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah is often regarded as a draft of the Tāj Mahal. Along with the main building, the structure consists of numerous outbuildings and gardens. The tomb, built between 1622 and 1628 represents a transition between the first phase of monumental Mughal architecture – primarily built from red sandstone with marble decorations, as in Humayun's Tomb in Delhi and Akbar's tomb in Sikandra – to its second phase, based on white marble and pietra dura inlay, most elegantly realized in the Tāj Mahal. The mausoleum was commissioned by Nūr Jahān, the wife of Jahangir, for her father Mirzā Ghiyās Beg, originally a Persian Amir in exile,[1] who had been given the title of I'timād-ud-Daulah (pillar of the state). Mirzā Ghiyās Beg was also the grandfather of Mumtāz Mahāl (originally named Arjūmand Bāno, daughter of Asaf Khān), the wife of the emperor Shāh Jahān, responsible for the construction of the Tāj Mahal. Nur Jehan was also responsible for the construction of the Tomb of Jehangir in Lahore. Located on the eastern bank of the Yamuna River, the mausoleum is set in a large cruciform garden criss-crossed by water courses and walkways. The mausoleum itself covers about twenty-three meters square, and is built on a base about fifty meters square and about one meter high. On each corner are hexagonal towers, about thirteen meters tall. The walls are made up from white marble from Rajasthan encrusted with semi-precious stone decorations – cornelian, jasper, lapis lazuli, onyx, and topaz formed into images of cypress trees and wine bottles, or more elaborate decorations like cut fruit or vases containing bouquets. Light penetrates to the interior through delicate jālī screens of intricately carved white marble. The interior decoration is considered by many to have inspired that of the Taj Mahal, which was built by her stepson, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Many of Nūr Jahān's relatives are interred in the mausoleum. The only asymmetrical element of the entire complex is that the cenotaphs of her father and mother have been set side-by-side, a formation replicated in the Tāj Mahal.