10 interesting facts about Tajmahal

1. Tajmahal was built by mughal emperor shah jahan in the loving memory of his wife mumtaj mahal.

2. Construction of tajmahal is started in 1631 and it took 22 years to build.

3. The architecture of tajmahal is a combination of  persian ,islamic and indian architecture style.

4. The construction of this master piece is around 320 million indian rupees.

5. Around 20,000 people worked day and night.

6. Around 1000 elephants were employed for the transportation of  the construction material

7. At the different time of the day tajmahal appears to be in a different colour every time.it appears pink in the morning.white in the day and changes to golden in the moon light.

8.Many types of marbles were used in the construction of tajmahal and they were brought over from many countries including afghanistan,arabia,china and srilanka.

9. In recent times different studies suggest that tajmahal is sinking in yamuna river.

10. Every year tajmahal attracts 3-4 million tourists with a huge number of  international tourists.

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