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I have posted about my story of reaching here in the last blog, so if you haven’t been through that one already, I’m posting the link to that blog below so that you can check that out.
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So here we were in the middle of the Lodhi Garden and in the middle lies, the biggest structure built in this huge garden called Bada Gumbad. As you can see, it’s a dome like structure and is about 500 years old.
There is a tree right in front of it, which gives a more dramatic look to the structure of the monument. While we were standing in front of the Bada Gumbad, we realise that how precisely and accurately this is built regarding it was built 500 years ago. It’s just built to perfection. It has taken the beating of the time, but still, it looks really beautiful.
At first, most of the people think that this structure is a tomb of kings of Nodi dynasty, but instead, it’s not a tomb, but entry getaway to the mosque that is built behind this. There are some graves outside of this structure, but they were not intended to be buried here, but our letter buried. The main aim of the structure was a getaway to the mosque.
I’ve tried to capture the detailed photographs of this structure for you guys. I have experiment with different angles and different camera settings for the photographs. Let me know in the comments if you like them or not.
The main hero of the show apart from the Bada Gumbad is this huge tree right next to it about which I talked about earlier also. Whenever I combined any photograph of this Bada Gumbad with the tree, it just came out to be awesome.
There are a couple of Guards guarding this structure all the time and making sure that nobody makes any damage to the monument.
In spite of having guards all the time, some notorious people had made some irreversible damage to the monument by writing their names and other such things on it.
Now we were inside of this Bada Gumbad, and as you can see, the structure consist of huge rocks lined up against each other and forming a huge dome. There are passages for air to pass from all sides so that it can be ventilated.
All these huge rocks lineup on top of each other and meet at this particular point which you can see in the photograph below. That’s what gives this a dome shape and also preserve the structure against environmental changes.
As already mentioned that this Bada Gumbad was a getaway to the mosque that is built inside of the campus. You can see the mosque from inside of the Bada Gumbad in the photograph below.
As soon as you get out of the Bala Gumbad on the other side of the Gumbad lies many graves of the people I was talking about earlier, although it was intended not to be called a tomb, but nowadays people consider it one.
When you look at those graves closely, you can see that these are not the graves of someone very special as they are all buried collectively and looks like they are from a group of people who died at single time in a war or something like that and are buried right in front of the near to the mosque just as to pay respect.
When you look really closely to the engraving on the wall, you can easily relate to the Mughal Empire era of building and architecture. I wonder how the craftsman crafted these scriptures by their hand at that time.
Just look at the details, and you will realise that it’s not a work of a year or two. It must have took a team of many people and 5 to 10 years of time just to complete this engraving considering the amount of tools, they had at that time.
We were really astonished by the beauty of this Bada Gumbad and now it was time for us to move to the mosque I was talking about earlier. I’ll be writing about the mosque and the details it had in the next blog, so stay tuned.
That’s all for today.
Thanks for passing by.
Peace ☮️