Pavan Kaul's Images: AMBROSIA
A Call Unheard...
Posted by Pavan Kaul (Mumbai, India) on 28 June 2012 in Architecture and Portfolio.
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston
Qutub Minar is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Delhi,India. The Qutub Minar was constructed with red sandstone and marble, and is the tallest minaret in India with a height of 72.5 meters (237.8 ft), contains 379 stairs to reach the top,[3] and the diameter of base is 14.3 meters whereas the last store is of 2.7 meters. The Construction was commenced by Qutb-ud-din Aibak in 1192 and completed by Iltutmish. Qutb-ud-din Aibak destroyed 27 Hindu and Jain temples and reused the building materials for construction of Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque and the Qutub Minar according to a Persian inscription still on the inner eastern gateway. Tradition assigns the erection of the Pillar to Anang Pal, whose name it bears, with the date 1052 A.D.(Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries).
The Qutub Minar comprises several superposed flanged and cylindrical shafts, separated by balconies carried on Muqarnas corbels. The minaret is made of fluted red sandstone covered with intricate carvings and verses from the Qur'an. The Qutub Minar is itself built on the ruins of the Lal Kot, the Red Citadel in the city of Dhillika, the capital of the Tomars and the Chauhans, the last Hindu rulers of Delhi. One engraving on the Qutub Minar reads, "Shri Vishwakarma prasade rachita" (Conceived with the grace of Vishwakarma.)
The Qutub Minar was used to calling people for prayer in the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque but it is so tall that one cannot hear the person standing on the top.
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