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A Cpmprehensive Guide to Agra and its Historical Buildings

1907

Be built the fort on the site of the old castle of Badalgarh and part of the palace in it also the great mosque and palaces and other public buildings at Fateh pur-Sikri and commenced the mausoleum of Sikandra. [...] The floor of the mosque is divided into separate seats for the use of the worshippers and near the wall stands the pulpit the seat of the preacher. [...] The charactor of the architecture the style of the building. [...] The whole minaret is 162i feet from the surface of the garden to the top of the Kolas. [...] The entrance opens into a square room then on either side run the octagonal rooms and the square rooms with passages between them so that a walk through all the rooms brings the visitor to the entrance room back as These rooms were for the use of the mullahs who Chanted the Koran and the musicians who played the Indian and Persian melodies.
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Pages
113
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142539
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi G.S. Sharman view
Preface
vii-viii G.S. Sharman view
General Introduction
1-8 unknown view
The Fort
9-30 unknown view
The Taj
31-54 unknown view
Places of Interest on the Other Side of the River
55-61 unknown view
Sikandra
62-66 unknown view
Jame Musjid and Other Old Buldings
67-69 unknown view
Fatehpur-Sikri
70-91 unknown view
Appendix A. Macdonnel Park and the Queen Victoria Memorial
i-ii unknown view
Appendix B. Trade and Manufactures
iii-vi unknown view
Appendix C. Municipality
vii-viii unknown view
Appendix D. Education
ix-xii unknown view
Backmatter
xiii-xiv unknown view

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