Taj Mahal

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1648

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building

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Shah Jahan commissioned the Taj Mahal in 1631 as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who had died in childbirth that year, and Ustad Ahmad Lahori led a team of about twenty thousand artisans through seventeen years of construction. The w …

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