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Instant Taj Mahal BETA

Walk or race through the gardens of the Taj Mahal, up to the white marble tomb.

The tomb on its platform with the four minarets, the mosque and the Jawab on either side, the long canal, and the great gate you come in by.

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What you can do

The tomb and its garden

Walk up the canal from the great gate to the white marble platform, past the four quarters of the garden. The tomb, the minarets, the mosque and the gate are modelled by hand from their measurements.

A race round the garden

Run, ride or gallop up the central walk, along the front of the platform, down the east side and back to the gate, over a path of sandstone slabs.

From OpenStreetMap

The garden, its walls, the canals and the forecourt south of the gate are drawn from OpenStreetMap, with the garden's paths added by hand.

On the map

A plan of Taj Mahal with 6 places marked
The game's own map. The dashed line is the race. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  1. 1

    🚪 The great gate

    Darwaza-i-Rauza, the red sandstone gate into the garden, finished in 1648. The 22 small domes along its top are said to stand for the years it took to build the Taj.

  2. 2

    🌳 The charbagh

    A Persian garden: four quarters round a channel of water, 300 metres across. It stands for the four rivers of paradise, and from the middle the tomb seems to float above the canal.

  3. 3

    🕌 The Taj Mahal

    Shah Jahan built it for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631, and it took about 20 years. The marble tomb stands on a platform, with an onion dome 73 metres up. It looks pink at dawn and gold at dusk.

  4. 4

    🗼 The minarets

    The four minarets are 40 metres high and each leans a little outward. If one ever fell, it would fall away from the tomb.

  5. 5

    🕋 The mosque

    The red sandstone mosque west of the tomb, still used on Fridays. It has three white domes, and its prayer hall faces Mecca, to the west.

  6. 6

    🔴 The Jawab

    The “answer”: a copy of the mosque on the east side, built so the view of the tomb would be symmetrical. Nobody prays there, as it does not face Mecca.

About Taj Mahal

Built
1632 to 1653, by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal
Height
73 metres from the garden to the tip of the finial
Garden
A charbagh: four quarters round a long canal, 300 metres wide
In the game
The tomb, four minarets, the mosque, the Jawab, the great gate, the garden wall and the forecourt

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