List of Mausolea - India

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  • Emperor Humayun's Mausoleum, Nizamuddin east, New Delhi.

  • The Taj Mahal is a Mausoleum of Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, Agra.

  • Safdarjung's Tomb is a garden tomb in a marble mausoleum.

  • Bibi Ka Maqbara or Mausoleum of the Lady is the resting place of Dilras Bano Begam wife of Emperor Aurangzeb in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

  • Bahauddin Makbara, mausoleum of the Wazir of Junagadh.

  • The mausoleum housing Tippu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali at Srirangapatna.

  • Gol Gumbaz, is the mausoleum of Mohammed Adil Shah. It has the second largest pre-modern dome in the world after the Byzantine Hagia Sophia.

  • Mauoleum of Chand Bibi defender of Ahmednagar against the Mughal forces of Emperor Akbar.

  • Mausoleum of Mohammed Shah in the Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi.

  • Mausoleum of Akbar the Great, Agra.

  • Mausoleum of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, Tughlaqabad.

  • Sikandar Lodhi's Mausoleum at Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi.

  • Hazira Maqbara Mausoleum of Qutbuddin Muhammad Khan and his son Naurang Khan generals and administrators of Gujarat province of the Mughal Empire during Emperor Akbar the Great's reign in the city of Vadodara.

  • Ataga Khan’s Tomb near Chausath Khamba.

  • Barakhamba is a 14th century tomb building from the Lodi period.

  • Adham Khan's Tomb, which also house the tomb of his mother, Maham Anga, Mehrauli, Delhi.

  • Moinuddin Chishti's Mausoleum in Ajmer.

  • Mausoleum of Mughal Empire's Vizier Allama Afzal Khan built in 1635 C.E. by Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan in Agra.

  • Salim Chishti, Fatehpur Sikri.

  • Haji Ali Dargah, Mumbai.

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    Mausoleum of Bu Ali Shah Qalandar, Mughal General Mahabat Khan, Hakim Mukaram Khan and Urdu Poet Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali, Panipat.

  • Itmad-Ud-Daulah's Mausoleum, Agra.

  • Raj Ghat is the site where Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was cremated.

  • Mausoleum of Sultan Ghari

  • Mausoleum of Sultan Ghiyath-ud-Din Balban (1200 – 1287 C.E.) Turkic ruler of the Delhi Sultanate

  • Mausoleum of Sultan Sher Shah Suri at Sasaram in Bihar.

  • Mausoleum of Isa Khan Niazi a renowned general of Sher Shah Suri near the Mughal Emperor Humayun's Tomb complex in Delhi 1547-1548 CE.An inscription on a red sandstone slab says Masnad Ali Isa Khan, son of Niaz Aghwan, the Chief chamberlain.

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