Jahaz Mahal
Lodi-era stone palace whose reflection in a now-drained reservoir earned it the name Ship Palace.
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This guide to Jahaz Mahal in Delhi traces the Lodi sultans who built it between the 1450s and 1526 beside a great reservoir, and the reflection that once made its towers appear to float like a ship. You'll hear the competing theories historians have argued over ever since, from a pilgrim rest house to a royal retreat, and what the carved prayer niche on its west wall does and doesn't settle. It follows the surviving domed chhatris along the roofline and the reservoir's slow disappearance.
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