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Just adjacent to the Mahabat Maqbara is another mausoleum dedicated to the Nawab’s vazir, Bahaduddinbhai Hasainbhai. Built soon after the completion of the Nawabs maqbara, Bahaduddin commissioned his own to be built in a similar mixture of styles. A unique feature that sets this mausoleum apart from the other one are its four minarets with a helical staircase going from bottom to top around it, or as locals call it as the β€˜inside-out minaret’.
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πŸ“: 17th-century stepwell at Bansilalpet near Secunderabad, Hyderabad πŸ‘

Note : Some work is still pending so it may be closed for some days. Do visit after few days πŸ‘

17th Century Stepwell brought back to its glory, inaugurated by KTR in Hyderabad πŸ“. Talking about the Bansilalpet stepwell restoration, KTR sir said, β€œA total of 3905 tonnes of garbage was removed by making a total of 863 trips to bring the stepwell to its original condition. The wonderful restoration work was done in the last 13 month’s πŸ™Œ

Telangana Government spent over 10 crores for it’s Restoration πŸ™Œ

The use of this stepwell is to improve ground water levelsπŸ‘

Free Entry πŸ₯³
Timings : 8 Am to 9pm
For parking you need to go some far πŸ‘
The Battis Khamba in Agra is an octagonal three storeyed tower topped by a chattri which once used to stand right by jamuna but today overlooks just weeds and shrubs since the river has shifted course

It was part of the Buland Bagh built by Buland Khan Khwajasara- a noble.of Jahangir sometime in early 17th century

The tower is not easily accessible standing deep in a modern nursery and one has to have full command of Google maps to reach this one.
Murudeshwara Temple is fast becoming one of the most popular tourist spots in #Karnataka because of the humongous statue of Shiva that it houses. The temple is built on the #Kanduka Hill and is surrounded by the Arabian Sea on three sides. Travellers from all over the world come to marvel at not just the 123-ft Shiva temple but also the 20-storey (237ft) Gopuram at the front.
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One of India’s greatest monuments, the #KailasaTemple, #Ellora. This astonishing temple, carved from solid rock, was built by King Krishna I in AD 76.

Three huge trenches were bored into the sheer cliff face, a process that entailed removing 200,000 tonnes of rock by hammer and chisel, before the temple could begin to take shape and its remarkable sculptural decoration could be added.
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Rani Ki Vav, Patan, Gujarat.

Rani-ki-Vav, on the banks of the Saraswati River, was initially built as a memorial to a king in the 11th century AD. Stepwells are a distinctive form of subterranean water resource and storage systems on the Indian subcontinent, and have been constructed since the 3rd millennium BC.
The well is located at the westernmost end of the property and consists of a shaft 10 m in diameter and 30 m deep.
Rani-ki-Vav was built at the height of craftsmens’ ability in stepwell construction and the Maru-Gurjara architectural style, reflecting mastery of this complex technique and great beauty of detail and proportions. Designed as an inverted temple highlighting the sanctity of water, it is divided into seven levels of stairs with sculptural panels of high artistic quality; more than 500 principle sculptures and over a thousand minor ones combine religious, mythological and secular imagery, often referencing literary works.
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The Statue of Belief or Vishwas Swaroopam is a statue of the Hindu God Shiva constructed at Nathdwara in Rajasthan, India. The statue opened on 29 October 2022. Currently, the Statue of Belief is the tallest statue of Lord Shiva in the World.
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The Nakhoda Musjid is the principal mosque of #Kolkata, India, in the Chitpur area of the Burrabazar business district in Central Kolkata, at the intersection of Zakaria Street and Rabindra Sarani.

The mosque was built as an imitation of the mausoleum of Mughal Emperor Akbar at Sikandra, Agra by Kutchi Memon Jamat, a small community of Sunni Muslim community from Kutch.

The #NakhodaMusjid the largest Muslim #Mosque in #WestBengal and eastern India ha a long history.

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Jatayu Earth Center, also known as Jatayu Nature Park or Jatayu Rock, is a park and tourism centre at Chadayamangalam in Kollam district of Kerala. It stands at an altitude of 350m (1200ft) above the mean sea level.
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Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple or simply known as Yadadri or Yadagirigutta temple, (also known as Pancha Narasimha Kshetram and Rishi Aradhana Kshetram) is a Hindu temple situated on a hillock in the small town of Yadagirigutta in the Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district of the Indian state of Telangana. The temple is an abode of Narasimha, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

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