The Lodi Garden was originally a village that was converted to gardens during the rule of the Lodi dynasty from 1451-1526. In 1936, the British resettled the park and renamed it Lady Willington Park, and after independence it was renamed Lodi Garden. The garden contains several historic monuments from the Lodi era, including the Bara Gumbad, a large tomb with a 27 meter high dome; the Sheesh Gumbad, also with a dome that was once covered in colored tiles; and the octagonal tomb of Muhammad Shah.

1. LODI GARDEN ARCHITECTURE
MADE
BY-DHEERAJ
KR.
VERMA

2. HISTORY
 Lodi dynasty (1451-1526)
displaced sayyid dynasty
(1414-1451) and came as
ruler.
 Earlier Lodi garden place was
the villagers place under Lodi
dynasty it was converted into
gardens.
 In 1936, British resetteled the
park and also named Lodi
garden as lady Willington
park. Again after the
independence renamed as
Lodi garden.
 Bahulal Lodi established Lodi
dynasty, earlier he was
governor of Punjab , he took
advantage of sayyid weak
position and captured Punjab
and later on Delhi.
CURRENT MASTER PLAN

3. BADA GUMBAD
4m
4 m
27 m
 The first example in Delhi of what is called
the ‘full dome’, that is, a dome which is a
complete semi circle. Square in plan
 Rises from a sixteen-sided drum
 Outside structure would appear to have
two storeys as you enter you see that it
has a single chamber magnificent high
ceiling .
 Its plinth is decorated on the east,
south, and west with ogee arch
openings set into rectangular
frames.
 The walls of the Bara Gumbad are
approx. 12 meters tall, above which
a hemispherical dome on a hex
decagonal drum extends another
14 meters from the roof level, for a
total building height of 29 meters
above ground level.

4. MALIS KHANA BADA GUMBAD RUBBLE PLATFORM BARA
GUMBAD
MOSQUE

5.  Typically Indian carved corbels often used
in conjunction with the arch.
 The square plan of the room transitions
into an octagon via squinches , which
then support the thirty-two-sided drum
and the dome.
 Each face of the drum is described by
an ogee arched niche set in a
rectangular frame.
 Tomb interior is unormanted.
 Below this projection is band of leaves
carved in relief.
 This group of buildings is raised on a
high platform in the middle of which is
an elevated area that might have been
a grave, made up of rubble masonary.

6. BARA GUMBAD MOSQUE MAJLIS KHANA
 The Friday mosque is a single
aisled, rectangular building,
approx. 30 meters (north-south)
by 8 meters (east-west).
 The doorways immediately to
the side of the central portal
are about 5m wide, while
those at the two ends are
approx. 1.5m
 Each arch is finished in plaster
and embellished with
intricate carved Arabic
inscriptions.
 Rectangular in plan, measuring about
27 meters (north-south) by 7 seven
meters (east-west).
 The building is from the common
plinth through its west wall, which is
divided into five bays, mirroring the
eastern elevation of the mosque
opposite it.
 Interior has 3 chambers central one is
largest of 5m others 2.5 m each.

7. SHEESH GUMBAD
 Facing the Bara Gumbad is the Sheesh
Gumbad, literally ‘glass dome’, so called
because the dome and parts of the
facade were once completely covered
with coloured glazed tiles.
 The transition from a square plan to the
circular dome is achieved by the use of
broad squinches supported on stone
pendetives.
 It was made similar to Bara Gumbad
having square plan with a double-storeyed
appearance, but this building is somewhat
different in its ornamentation.
 Topped with octagonal minarets in the
corners, the exterior divides itself into two
storeys with the help of a projecting
horizontal cornice.

8. MOHAMMAD SHAH TOMB
 This handsome building
constructed of Delhi quartzite
stone stands on a high platform.
 An arched verandah surrounds
the central octagonal chamber
which is nearly 15 m wide.
 Each side of the inner chamber
has a beam-and-lintel doorway
which originally had perforated
screens, with the main entrance
to the chamber from the south.
 The shape of the chamber
ingeniously transforms from an
eight-sided octagon to a sixteen-sided,
hexa-decagon.
 Sixteen sides then form a
circular dome above the soffit of
which is ornamented with
incised stucco plasterwork.
 A cluster of small
chattris (pillared
kiosks) surround the
main dome which is
crowned with an
inverted lotus finial.

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