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How are you all my dear friends? I hope you are all fine. In today's post, I have shared photographs and Information of historical places inside the Red Fort of Agra. This is my second post across the Red Fort from Agra. In the first post, I presented to you the interesting history of Red Fort. In this post I have shared with you the information of the historical places inside the Red Fort with photographs.
Jahangir's Hauz (Tank) A.D. 1610: This monolithic tank (hauz) was used for bathing. It is 5 feet high, 8 feet in diameter and 25 feet in circumference. The exterior of the rim has an inscription in Persian mentioning 'Hauz-e-Jahangir'. It was first discovered near the courtyard of Akbar's palace. A.D. in 1843 and later it was placed in front of Diwan-i-Aam. In 1862, it was moved to the public park (Co. Bagh), where it suffered a lot of damage. Later, Sir John Marshall brought it back to Agra Fort and placed it there. Due to this Hauz, the palace became famous as Jahangiri Mahal, although it is a part of Akbar's Bengali palace.
Shahjahani Mahal (1628–35 A.D.): It is situated between the white marble Khas Mahal and the red stone Jahangiri Mahal and is partially installed between these two residential complexes of two different ages. It is the earliest attempt by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to convert a red stone building to his taste and it was his oldest palace in the Agra Fort. It has a large hall, side room and an octagonal tower on the banks of the river. The brick and red stone skeleton construction was remodeled with a thick white plaster plaster and painted in floral designs. The entire palace once shone like white marble. On the face towards the Khas Mahal, there is a large massive white marble hallway, made of five arches, supported on double columns and externally protected by a balcony. Its closed west bay house, Ghazniin Gate, Babur's Baoli and below it is a well.
Ghazan Gate (1030 A.D.): The gate originally belonged to the tomb of Mahmud Ghaznavi in Ghazni. It was brought from there by the British in 1842. In a historic proclamation, Governor General Lord Ellenborough claimed that these were the sandalwood gates of Somnath, which Mahmud had taken to Ghazni in 1025, and the British avenged the insults of 800 years earlier. This false claim was made only to win the goodwill of the Indian people. This gate is actually made from local cedar wood of Ghazni, not sandalwood. The style of decoration is not the same as in ancient Gujarati woodwork. There is also an Arabic inscription carved on the upper part. It mentions about Mahmud. Sir John Marshall put up a notice-board here which described the entire episode about this gate. It is 16.5 feet high and 13.5 feet wide and its height is about half a ton. It is made up of geometric, hexagonal and octagonal panels that are fixed, with each other in a frame without rivets. The idea of restoring it at Somnath was eventually abandoned and the gate was abandoned. Since then, it is stored in a room.
Sheesh Mahal (A.D. 1631–40): It was built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a part of the Summer Palace. Its most distinguishing feature is the glass mosaic on its walls and ceilings. These glass pieces have a high mirror quality that glows and twinkles in a thousand ways in a semi-dark interior. The glass was imported from Haleb, Syria. Shah Jahan built glass palaces in Lahore and Delhi as well, but it is the best of all.
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