red forts

RED FORT DELHI & AGRA

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

JOEDEREK

DIWAN I AM

HALL OF PRIVATE AUDIENCE

COVERED BAZAAR

Mughal Emperor Shahjahan started construction of the massive fort in 1638 and work was completed in 1648.

The fort contains •halls of public and private audience, •domed and arched marble palaces, •plush private apartments, •a mosque •and elaborately designed gardens.

The first job was to build the defences for the city and, inside, the citadel-fort. Twenty-one towers and seven main gateways punctuated the 4 mile long, 27 foot high city wall. The walls encircling the 124 acre Fort were even more tremendous, ranging in height from 60 feet on the river side to 75 on the landward side, and in width from 45 feet at ground level to 30 feet

INTRODUCTION:

The largest of Old Delhi's monuments is Lal Quila or Red Fort whose thick red sandstone walls, bulging with turrets and bastions, have withstood the vagaries of time and nature.

The Lal Quila rises above a wide dry moat in the northeast corner of the original city of Shahjahanabad.

Its walls extend from two kilometers and vary in height from 18 metres on the river side to 33 metres on the city side.

• Agra fort is in the form of an irregular semicircle, has its back to the river Yamuna which thus protects its eastern side.

• The western wall is dominated by the massive main entrance – the so-called Delhi Gate- and the Hathi Pol.   This gate is approached by a tortuous access ramp.

• To the south, the Amar Singh gate is defended by two towers which flank the entrance

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