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Multi-periodSite Name: Qutab Minar Complex Alternative Name: Qtab Minar, Qutub MinarCountry: India
NOTE: This site is 13.812 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: New Delhi
Latitude: 28.524410N Longitude: 77.185480E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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mfrincu visited on 20th Jul 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5
Jansold visited on 1st Nov 1998 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
DrewParsons myf have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 5
The Qutab Minar tower is the tallest brick minaret in the world and is modelled on the remote and seldom visited nowadays Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan. The Qutab Minar comprises five levels, the second, third and fourth being added by Mohammed Ghori's son-in-law Iltutmish. In 1368 CE the fourth storey was struck by lightening and replaced with two storeys by the then Sultan Of Delhi Firoz Shah Tughlag. The minaret is a column of rubble and rock enfaced with red and buff coloured sandstone with bands of carved Islamic calligraphy. In the grounds stands the start of a second column which was to have been twice as high although only the first 27 metres of the rubble and rock core were built when the instigator of the project Ala-ud-din died. This second tower illustrates how the central core of the minarets were constructed.
Another interesting site at this complex is the Iron Pillar standing 7.21 metres high and caste around 400 CE. It remains rust free after all these years, a testament to the skills of the iron workers in those times. The pillar carries an inscription in Sanskrit assumed to relate to Chandragupta II who ruled northern India at that time.
The remains of the first mosque built in India are also in the grounds, constructed from the masonry of the Jain Temple pulled down by the victorious Muslim army of Mohammed Ghori, as are a number of tombs and gateways.
I hesitated to put the Qutab Minar complex onto The Megalithic Portal, but decided that being over 800 years old it ranked in age alongside many a viking site featured here. The same ambivalence occurred with the Iron Pillar as this is after all the Megalithic Portal not the Megaferric portal!! However, its age and location within the complex and its overall interest made me decide to include it.
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