Historical landmark
Tomb of Akbar
Tomb of Akbar The Great Area, Sikandra, Agra, Uttar Pradesh 282007
Mughal mausoleum of red sandstone and marble, blending Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist, and Jain motifs.
This guide to Akbar's mausoleum in Agra follows the Mughal emperor's decision, around 1600, to build his own resting place — a five-story red sandstone monument his son Jahangir finished by 1613, its marble gateway blending Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist and Jain motifs from a famously pluralist court. It traces the empire's unraveling decades later under Aurangzeb, and what a Jat chieftain named Raja Ram brought to this ridge in 1688.
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