Fatehpur Sikri was built in the late 16th century by Mughal emperor Akbar as the imperial capital of the Mughal Empire. Key buildings constructed included the Jama Masjid mosque, Buland Darwaza gate, tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Salim Chishti, Diwan-i-Khas and Diwan-i-Am halls, Panch Mahal palace, and Khwabgah residence. Fatehpur Sikri was inhabited for only about 15 years before the capital was moved to Agra due to water supply issues, but it remains an architectural marvel and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

1. SAJID ALI
Roll No 31
M.A History, Semester II

2. Department of History &
Pakistan Studies, University
of The Punjab, Lahore.

3. Fatehpur Sikri

4. The plan of fatehpur sikri

5. the palace buildings

6. Literature Review
• FATEHPUR SIKRI (Forms, Techniques & Concepts) BY R.NATH
• THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of NDIA I:4 Architecture of Mughal
India BY CATHERINE B. ASHER
• DELHI AGRA FATEHPUR SIKRI BY MARTIN HURLIMANN
Translated From The German By Jean Carroll and Isobel Hatton
• Working Classes in Mughal India (1556-1605 A.D.) BY Dr. Rukhsana
Iftikhar

7. INTRODUCTION
• Sikri was a well watered ground
• It was after the conquest of gujarat that the city came to be called
fatehpur (the town of victory)
• City built on a flat terrain on rocky sandstone ridge
• It was twenty three miles away from agra
• Akbar ordered for the construction of nobles houses,a great mosque,
imperial palaces, baths,serais, a bazaar, gardens,school,a khanqab and
workshop then sikri become a royal residence.it had economic ,
administrative ,residential base.sikri was only inhabited by Akbar for
about fifteen years

8. why he built fatehpur sikri
Akbar remained heirless for many years
He visited the village of sikri in 1568
Sheikh salim chishti already lived there and propheisied the birth of his
His first hindu wife a daughter of the raja of amber became pregnant
On 30august 1569 she bore the son who was given the name salim in the
honour of the saint

9. Jahangir writes
My revered father,regarding the village of sikri,my birth place,as
fortunate to himself,made it his capital,and in the course of
fourteen or fifteen years the hills and deserts,which abounded in
beasts of prey,became converted into a magnificent city,comprising
numerous gardens,elegent edifices and other places of great
attaraction and beauty.after the conquest of gujarat ,the village was
named fatehpur sikri

10. BACKGROUND
Baber mentioned sikri and its lake on the eve of the khanwah battle in febuary 1527
When he was seeing this place then that place covered with water and then he decided to set up
his large camp
He liked this place and after the battle of khanwah,founded here a garden which he mentioned
in his memoires
The jal mahal was a large building in the middle of the lake
Sorrounded on all sides by water and was accessible by boat

11. Babur jal mahal

12. Babur jal mahal

16. The Buland Darwaza
Entrance gate to the jama mosque
54 meters in height,
completed in 1575-76 though designed in 1573
Built four years after the mosque itself,
to commemorate the imperial conquest of Gujarat

17. The Jami Mosque

18. • Built in 1571-72 while interior inscriptions are dated 1574, indicating its
completion
• Supposed to be a “duplicate of the holy place” at Mecca
• The mosque was at that time the largest in the Mughal empire
• In 1579 Akbar himself read the ‘khutba’
• Two months later Akbar issued the declaration(mahzar)

20. Salim Chisti’s Tomb

21. • The sheikh died in 1572, and over his remains Akbar built a fine
mausoleum
• White marble single-doomed building measuring 15 meters square
• Considered a masterpiece
• Completed almost a decade later in 1580-81
• Originally the building consisted mainly of red sandstone
• It was later covered with marble

24. Diwan-i-khas

25. • Situated just behind the Public Audience Hall and aligned with jharoka
• This was the private audience hall
• It is a square two-storeyed building of a quite unusual shape particularly inside
• Central pillar, from the wide corbelled capital from which four shafts lead to the
four corners of the building and to the gallery at the first-floor level
• Reaching about half of the building’s total height
• Built in 1575, where the foundation of a new Syncretistic faith, Din-i-ilahi were laid
by Akbar

26. Central Pillar of Diwan-i-khas

27. Diwan-i-Am

28. • Diwan-i-am, the great public audience hall, here consists of a broad open
courtyard.
• On the west side stands the building where the emperor appeared in an
enclosure shut off on both sides by stone lattice-work

29. Khwabgah
The khwabgah (house od dreams)
was the residence of emperor himself
Seat in the middle of a pool in the front
In the right background , the house of Rumi Sultana or
Turkish Queen

30. Panch Mahal

31. • Panch Mahal, the five storeyed palace, the tallest building
• Each storey is supported by colonnades
• The first storey has 84 columns, the second 56, the third 20, the fourth 12
and the top most pavilion 4
• Suggested that this was a pleasure pavilion
• Said that the halls were used as a residence for the court ladies

35. conclusion
• Fatehpur sikri is one of the best preserved marvels of mughal architecture
• The vilage is a delight for architecture and enthusiastic, handicraft curators
and cultural explorals.
• Fatehpur sikri construction was the akber greatest arcitecture achievment
• Akbar lived at fatehpur from 1569 to 1585 for about seventeen years
• In 1582 the dam of the lake of fatehpur was broken and the whole town was
inundated.

36. • Decided to leave the beautiful city and transferred the court to agra in 1585
• The climate and vegetation destroyed every thing that it could and the place
was forgotten untill the archaeologist revealed it again
• One of the most remarkable of the innumberable astonishing monuments
of India
• It includedv in the UNESCO’S world heritage