As you can imagine, the Taj Mahal required a lot of people for its manufacture. The specialists of each profession were called to work on a site that brings together the peak of its activities up to 20,000 people. It was started in 1631. 17 years later, in 1648, the mausoleum hand was completed. The complete site was completed in 1653, 5 years later, the years that were used to build the enclosure, the ancillary buildings, and especially the gardens.
The style
The architecture of the Taj Mahal is clearly Indo-Islamic. It is a style combining Hindu art, traditional in this territory, and Islamic, this religion has been conveyed so far. The mixture of the two allowed a reinterpretation of the many Hindu traditions in an Islamic form that dominated the region since the time of the Delhi Sultanate (1192 - 1451). Subsequently the Mughal Empire took over and Indo-Islamic art took various forms depending on the political climate of the time. Thus with the first emperor Bâbur this style was little used, while under Akbar, it was greatly. The territory, historically populated by non-Muslims, delivered a workforce that was not used to Islamic style. However, it was under the direction of Muslim artists that they were built, hence these intertwined vegetation, this work of lapidary marquetry and the dome of lotus which is the flagship of Taj Mahal, synthesis of Islamic art and Hindu.
