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Glorious Building in New Delhi

Glorious Building in New Delhi

As New Delhi known to be a heavily populated area with its growing business, this city is full with skyscrapers and business districts making it alive day and night. If you take a look a bit closer to the city, you still can see that despite all those modern buildings, the remnants of India’s glorious past is still intact in New Delhi. Spend your holiday in New Delhi and you can see some magnificent buildings world ever known.

The first structure would be the Swaminarayan Akshardham or simply means the Temple of God. This temple is open in 2005 and has 9 domes, 20 towers, 234 pillars and more than 20.000 figurines from various India mythologies. Located in National Highway 24, Near Noida More, New Delhi, this temple is known to be the largest Hindu Temple in the world. The outer wall of this temple is decorated with pink sand while the interior is using white marbles; in Hindu, pink symbolize the love for God and white symbolize absolute purity and peace. More outstanding feature of this temple is the laser show and musical fountain on its park. The laser show that takes place in this lotus shape fountain is telling about the cycle of birth, life and death that happen in human life.

The next structure is known to be the symbol of India, the Lal Quila or Red Fort which is a 17th century fort complex built as a palace when India’s capital city is changed from Agra to Delhi. The name Lal Quila is coming from the material that was used for this fort, which is the red stone. Located on the banks of Yamuna River, the Red Fort has become the most visited site in India. You can visit this fort from either 2 entrances, the Delhi Gate or the Lahore Gate. The Lahore gate is the main entrance of the fort and it will directly lead you to Chata Chowk, an ancient bazaar street and also the drum house, a room that used to be the place where musicians play their music every day. Within this fort area, you can see Moonlight Garden or Mehtab Bagh. It is called Moonlight Garden because it is full with flowers that blossomed during moonlight.

The third structure would be an eye catching monument that can be seen from any part of New Delhi, the Qutab Minar. This monument is 234 feet high and has 5 distinct stories and each of them is marked with a balcony. The first until third stories is made by red sandstone while the last 2 stories are made using marbles and sandstone. There is a very steep stair inside the tower but now it is closed for visitor because there was an accident happened inside that cause deaths. This tower is also an example of Mughal Masterpiece, not only because of the height but also the inscriptions on the wall of the tower. At the base of the tower is the first mosque in India called the Quwwat Ul Islam Masjid.