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Emperor Shah Jahan

Royalty📍 India

📍Agra Fort, Rakabganj, Agra, Uttar Pradesh 282003, India

1628 – 1658

“I built the Taj Mahal for Mumtaz, who died giving me our fourteenth child. She had been my inseparable companion for nineteen years. The white dome took twenty-two years and twenty thousand labourers to complete. In my final years, imprisoned in the Agra Fort by my own son Aurangzeb, I could see her tomb across the river from my tower window. That view became my only comfort and my only remaining connection to the life I had known.”

👍 LovedThe perfection of the white marble against the Agra sky at different hours of the day
👎 DislikedThe imprisonment imposed by Aurangzeb — to see Mumtaz's tomb but never be permitted to reach it
Map showing where Emperor Shah Jahan lived — Agra Fort, Rakabganj, Agra, Uttar Pradesh 282003, India

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Emperor Shah Jahan's home at Agra Fort, Rakabganj, Agra, Uttar Pradesh 282003, India

📍 Street view today

Sources: Wikipedia: Shah Jahan

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