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The main gate to the Taj Mahal


World
Wonder: |
Taj Mahal |
| Location: |
Agra, India |
| Information: |
Built by Mogul Emperor Shan(Muslim) Jahan for his wife of eighteen years
who died giving birth to their fourteenth child. 20,000 people worked continuously for 20
years to build this great mausoleum. It was completed in 1653. The Emperor wanted to begin
constructing his own black Taj Mahal across the river but his son had him thrown in jail.
The Emperor is buried in the Taj Mahal with his wife. |
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