@sirknight Celestial Challenge:
Celestial challenge is great challenge initiated by great @sirnight! This contest is great and in this contest people have to post according to different themes defined by days! According to today's day which is Wednesday the theme of today is Structures! So my complete post will be on some structure!
QUTUB-MINAR an ancient Structure for today Challenge Theme:
Qutub Minar an ancient long huge structure which still in great shape which is situated at Delhi, India!
Qutub minar is very old structure, it was started building up at 1192 by Qutab Ud-Din Aibak who was founder of the Delhi Sultanate (Kingdom). Qutub minar is consists of five storeys and all of them were made in a very long period of time by a single family by family members! In 1220 the three storeys of the minar was completed by there family person known as Aibak's successor & Iltutmish. After some time a lightning strike devastated the top story. Firoz Shah Tughlaq supplanted the harmed story, and included one more. Sher Shah suri likewise added a passageway to this pinnacle while he was decision and Humayun was at an outcast. Qutub Minar is a 73-meter (239.5 feet) tall decreasing pinnacle of five stories, with a 14.3 meters (47 feet) base breadth, diminishing to 2.7 meters (9 feet) at the peak. It contains a winding staircase of 379 steps. Its plan is thought to have been founded on the Minaret of Jam, in western Afghanistan.
Qutub minar is very old structure and the most effective term about this structure is this that after centuries the tower is still in great shape and standing in a really good manner!
The place where this tower is situated there are also many other ancient structure as well!
Here are some photos of that ancient structure which is prove of that ancient structure!
Now if someone wants to participate and know about @Sirnight, do have a visit to his blog & his daily themes for celestial challenge are:
Sunday : Light Monday : Darkness Tuesday : AnimalKingdom Wednesday : Structures Thursday : ForcesinNature Friday : LoveBeautyFreedom Saturday : Agriculture