Humayun Tomb New Delhi HD
Humayun dead body is buried in old fort i.e. purana quila later it was build by order of his wife. the architect was brought from Herat now it is in Afghanistan who had previously designed several building in Herat, Bukhara now in Uzbekistan. Before the completion of this tomb he died so his son Sayyed Muhammad Ibn Mirak Ghiyathuddin completed this design in 1571. the total cost of this building at that time was 15 lakh (1.5 million).
One of the world heritage site Humayun Tomb is situated in New Delhi India at Mathura road near its crossing with the lodhi road or east of the Nizamuddin dargah. It is the tomb of Mughal emperor Humayun, he is the second Mughal emperor in history of India. he died in 1565 and the tomb was commenced by his wife Hamida Banu Begum also popularly known as Haji Begum in 1569. this whole tomb garden was designed by Mirak Mirza Ghiyath, a Persian architect and this building is first Persian model building in Indian subcontinent. the structure was built with red sandstone along with white and black marble. The Humayun's Tomb is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in the year 1993 and was also honoured with the prestigious National Heritage Award
The main tomb is situated at the center of Charbagh garden of a 30 acre. the highly geometrical octagonal building is enclosed by paradise garden is divided into four square by paved walkways and two bisecting central water channels that reflecting the four river of Jannat (paradise) as mentioned in the holly book Quran. each of four squares further divided into smaller square with pathways creating 36 squares in all.
As mention in Quran the river is flowing beneath the garden of paradise the water channels is flowing from inside the building and appearing from other side of the buildings.
The complex of Humayun tomb consisting many of small monuments. within the main tomb building there is a lot of tomb of different people of Mughal palace, workers, officers etc. Also within the complex there is barbers tomb who was serving for mughal emperor, so they made their separate tomb what a respect for barbers it is sign of equality of mughal emperor.
