The document discusses significant historical buildings and temples in India, focusing on their architecture, engineering, and historical context. Key structures mentioned include the Qutub Minar, Jama Masjid, Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, Rajarajeshwara Temple, and the Golden Temple, each highlighting unique construction techniques and cultural significance. It also addresses the impact of invasions on these temples, the evolution of architectural styles under various rulers, and prominent examples of Mughal architecture such as Humayun's Tomb and the Taj Mahal.

1. Rulers and buildings Qutub minar

2. Rulers and buildings
In this chapter we will discuss about a few buildings and temples along with
their architecture and engineering skills.
The buildings are Kutub Minaret, Jama masjid, temples like Kandariya
Mahadeva, Rajarajeshwara temple, and Golden temple.

3. It is a five storeys
high minaret
• This is the first balcony-which
was constructed by Qutbuddin
Aybak. The remaining flours
was completed by Iltutmish
around 1229
• Over the years it was damaged
by earthquakes and lightning
and repaired by Alauddin
Khalji, Muhammad Tughlak,
Firoz Shah Tughlak and
Ibrahim Lodhi

4. Engineering skills and
construction
Superstructure is the part of the building above the ground floor.
Roofs, doors and windows were made by placing a horizontal
beam across two vertical columns, a style of architecture called
trebeate or corbelled
Between the 8th and 13th century the trebeate style was used to
construct temples and mosques along with stepped wells called
baolis.

5. KandariyaMahadev
a temple
• This is the largest and most
beautiful Hindu temple in the
medieval period. This type of
temple group are found at
Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh,
India. It was built by Vidyadhara.
• It is considered one of the best
examples of temples preserved
from the medieval period in
India.
• Kajuraho was once the religious
capital of the Chandela Rajputs and
today is one of the most popular
tourist destinations in India.

7. Rajarajeshwara
temple
It had one of the tallest Shikhara of that time.
All this done without the use of cranes as there were no cranes in those days.

8. • Rajarajeshwara Temple. ... at Thanjavur in
the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a Hindu
temple of Lord Shiva. This temple is one of
India's most prized architectural sites.
• The Shikhara of the Rajarajeshwara
temple is twice as high as that of the
Kandariya Mahadeva temple.

9. Rajarajeshwara temple
• The temple is regarded as one of the existing 108
ancient Shiva Temples of Kerala. It also has a
prominent place amongst the numerous Shiva
temples in South India. It had the tallest shikhara
amongst the temples of its time. The
Rajarajeshwara temple has a top of about 90
tonnes. If any problem is encountered in the other
temples of South India, devotees seek a solution in
this temple through a prasna, a traditional method
of astrological decision making. The prasna is
conducted on a peedha (a raised platform) outside
the temple.

10. Jama Masjid
Built by Shah
Jahan

11. Jama Masjid
• Jama Masjid (Hindi: जामा मस्जिद, Urdu: ‫مسجد‬ ‫)جامع‬ of
Delhi, is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India.
Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah
Jahan,he built this mosque in the year 1650 AD
and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is the largest
and best-known mosque in India. It lies at the
beginning of the Chawri Bazar Road, a very busy
central street of Old Delhi.

12. JAMA MASJID
The later name, Jama Masjid, refers to the weekly Friday
noon congregation prayers of Muslims, Jummah, which
are usually done in a mosque, the "congregational
mosque" or "Jama masjid". The courtyard of the mosque
can hold up to twenty-five thousand worshippers. The
mosque also houses several relics in a closet in the
north gate, including an antique copy of the Qur'an
written on deer skin

13. Picture of Jama Masjid

14. The golden temple
in Amritsar

15. Pictures of Golden temple

16. Golden temple
• The Harmandir Sahib
also Darbar Sahib and
informally referred to as
the Golden Temple is a
prominent Sikh Gurdwara
located in the city of
Amritsar, Punjab, India. It
was built by the fifth Sikh
guru, Guru Arjan, in the
16th Century.

17. GOLDEN TEMPLE
The main structure rises from the centre of the sacred pool, 150
metres square, approached by a causeway about 60 metres long. An
archway on the western side of the pool opens on to the causeway,
bordered with marble, and, at close intervals, there are standard
lamps, their great lanterns set upon marble columns. The 52-metre
square-based Hari Mandir, to which the causeway leads, stands on a
20-metre square platform. Its lower parts are of white marble, but
the upper parts are covered with plates of gilded copper. In the
interior, on the ground floor, is the Guru Granth Sahib, placed under
a gorgeous canopy, studded with jewels. On the second storey is a
pavilion known as Shish Mahal or Mirror Room, so designed as to
have a square opening in the centre to view from there the ground
floor, with the further provision of a narrow courtyard around the
square opening.

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19. Why temples were destroyed ?
• Temples were built to demonstrate their devotion to
God and their power and wealth, it is not surprising
that when they attacked one another's kingdoms
they often targeted these buildings.
• In the ninth century when the Pandyan king Shrimara
invaded Sri Lanka he defeated the King, Sena I, the
Buddhist monk and it was noted that he had
removed all the valuables and statue of Buddha was
seized.

20. Why temples were destroyed?
• The next Sinhalese ruler , Sena II ordered his general
to invade Madurai, the capital of Pandyas.
• Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni was not a very important
ruler but by destroying temples- especially the one at
Somnath-he tried to win credit as a great hero of
Islam.

21. Gardens, Tombs and Forts.
• Under the Mughals, architecture became more
complex. Babur, Humayuns, Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah
Jahan were personally interested in literature, art,
and architecture.
• Babur described his interest in planning and laying
out formal gardens, placed within rectangular walled
enclosure and divided into four quarters by artificial
channels. These gardens were called as Chahar Bagh

22. PICTURES OF CHAHAR BAGH

23. Humayuns tomb
• Constructed between 1562-
1571
• It has a central towering dome
and the tall gateway.
• The tomb was placed in the
centre of a huge formal
Chahar Bagh.
• It has a central hall surrounded
by eight rooms known as eight
paradises.

24. Taj Mahal
• Built by Shah Jahan, in Agra on the bank
of river Yamuna.
• The dwelling was located at the edge of
Chahar Bagh, close to the river.
• Taj Mahal is also called as Mumtaz
Mahal as it was constructed in the
memory of his wife Mumtaz.
• Taj Mahal was constructed over a period
of twenty-two years, employing twenty
thousand workers. It was completed in
1648 C.E. at a cost of 32 Million Rupees.
• It is widely accepted as the Jewel of
Muslim art in India. It is universally
admired masterpieces of the world
heritage. Today it ranks 3rd amount the
eight wonders of the world.

25. PICTURES OF TAJ MAHAL

26. Region and Empire
• In Vijaynagar elephant stables
of the rulers were strongly
influenced by the style of
architecture.
• In Vrindavan, near Mathura,
temples were constructed in
architectural styles that were
very similar to the Mughal
palaces in Fatehpur Sikri.
• The "Bangla dome" was used
by the Mughals.

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