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Indian Famous Monuments

  Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), Amritsar The holiest shrine and pilgrimage place located in Amritsar is The Golden Temple known as the Harmandir Sahib. This is the most famous and sacred Sikh Gurdwara in Punjab,  India , adorned with rich history and gold gilded exterior. If you are interested in culture and history, be sure to visit this popular attraction in India. Meenakshi Temple, Madurai Meenakshi Temple is situated on the Southern banks of Vaigai River in the temple city Madurai. This temple is dedicated to Parvati and her consort, Shiva and is visited by most Hindu and Tamil devotees and architectural lovers throughout the world. It is believed that this shrine houses 33,000 sculptures in its 14 gopurams. It’s no doubt one place to visit if you are impressed with art and cultural history. Mysore Palace, Mysore The Mysore Palace is a famous historical monument in the city of Mysore in Karnataka. Commonly described as the City of Palaces, this is the most famous tourist a

Tomb of Bijri khan

TOMB  Of  BIJRI KHAN The tomb belongs to the Lodi period. Nothing is known about Bijri Khan’ - this is a signboard right outside Bijri Khan’s Tomb. This tomb is one of those out-of-the-blue monuments that jumps suddenly into focus as you drive on the wide roads of South Delhi’s R.K. Puram in Sector 3. The story, no one knows as it hasn’t been recorded, but people believe that Bijri Khan was a nobleman during the Lodi Dynasty and that's pretty much it!  The Lofty Structure Bijri Khan’s tomb is a mausoleum, a structure enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of the dead. The structure is square in shape, built on a raised platform. It is said to belong to the Lodi period, because it has three arched entrances with doorways with brackets on architraves (doorframes). This style is typical of structures built during the time of the Lodi Dynasty. The dome is both massive and impressive and the colour of the mausoleum is light cream mixed with brown, perhaps made out of ston

Delhi Lotus Temple

  Lotus temple comes under the list of top 7 famous monuments of India because of its half-opened lotus flower structure. Due to this marvelous shape design only, tourists are attracted, and it is identified as the mother temple of India. Every year thousands of travelers and devotees gather from across the globe to get a glimpse of the lotus temple to seek blessings from the divine and to enjoy the phenomenal atmosphere and tranquility. There is space for meditation, and its architecture represents the combination of conventional and contemporary engineering. The mastermind behind the creation and conceptualization of the design was Fariborz Sahba. Creating the plan and execution took approximately ten years which is worth it now. It is really simple to reach the lotus temple because its destination can be covered by a metro. You have to get onboard on the Nehru Place- Kalkaji Mandir metro, and within the 5 minutes walking distance, you will reach your ideal  destination . The L

Memorials and monuments in the United States

Crazy Horse Memorial The unfinished Crazy Horse Memorial is being created on Thunderhead Mountain, a part of the Black Hills in South Dakota considered sacred by many Native Americans. A long winding road leads to the site, where suddenly there unfolds an extraordinary vista: a sculpture being carved from the side of a mountain.In 1939 Chief Henry Standing Bear wrote to the Polish sculptor  Korczak Ziolkowski  and asked if he would create a monument to honour the Native Americans. That request sparked what would become one of the largest and most controversial memorial projects. Ziolkowski’s vision, which his family has perpetuated, was for a sculpture of  Crazy Horse , the Lakota warrior who led his people during the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), where Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his men were massacred. Ziolkowski and members of the Lakota tribe chose the location of Thunderhead Mountain, but it is a controversial site, and many Lakota people are deeply offended a