Taj Mahal is in my opinion a temple of love. In other specialists opinion it is a funeral monument.
Let them believe what they want, that is why they are really specialists! Taj Mahal is simply a wonderful monument of hindu art. It lies in Agra,India on the river of Jumna and was build by the emperor(maharajah) Shah-Jahan in the memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. It is build from white marble, and decorated with inclusions of colored marble and versets of the Quran. A huge building on a eight sided plane, dominated by a huge arch(47 meters diametre)
There are lot of legends about Taj Mahal. According to one of them, it was build with blind people, who could not see how beautiful it is. Rabrindanath Tagore, the greatest indian poet and Nobel prized, said about Taj Mahal: it is a tear on the mankind nice pillow!
