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Akbar's red sandstone city

Fatehpur Sikri

A Mughal capital built in one red stone in the 1570s and left by the court only a few years later.

This is a picture of Hamamm which is in front of the Buland Darwaza. Those structures are also know as dombed baths because their shape and purpose respectively. This was taken when I was standing on the stairs in front
Photo: HibaSiddiqui, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Fatehpur Sikri is red sandstone

Fatehpur Sikri stands on a ridge about forty kilometres west of Agra. The Mughal emperor Akbar began it in 1571 as a new capital and built palaces, audience halls and a great mosque in little more than a decade. Nearly everything is cut from the local red sandstone, carved as finely as wood. The court moved away in 1585 and the city was never a capital again, which is why it survives so complete. One building breaks the red: the small white marble tomb of the Sufi saint Salim Chishti, with pierced stone screens, in the mosque courtyard. The mosque's gateway, the Buland Darwaza, is about 54 metres high. The site is a World Heritage Site.

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Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.

Colours tied to Fatehpur Sikri

RedA primary colour seen in light, pigment, and tradition worldwide
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