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Submitted by DrewParsons on Monday, 14 December 2009  Page Views: 14555

Multi-periodSite Name: Qutab Minar Complex Alternative Name: Qtab Minar, Qutub Minar
Country: India
NOTE: This site is 59.834 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: New Delhi
Latitude: 28.524410N  Longitude: 77.185480E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
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Qutab Minar Complex
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by DrewParsons : The Qutab Minar Tower photographed in November 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Qutab Minar complex is located in the ruins of a Jain Temple on the southern edge of New Delhi. It comprises a number of sites including the 72.5 metre high Qutab Minar tower commenced in 1192 CE by Qutbuddin Aibak the viceroy to Mohammed Ghori whose Islamic army defeated the Sultan of Delhi's Hindu Kingdom and so took over power in northern India.

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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Qutab Minar Complex
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by KaiHofmann : Qutab Minar complex Site in India (Vote or comment on this photo)

Qutab Minar Complex
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by KaiHofmann (Vote or comment on this photo)

Qutab Minar Complex
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by KaiHofmann (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Qutab Minar Complex submitted by DrewParsons : The rust free 1600 year old Iron Pillar at the Qutab Minar Complex. Photographed in November 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Qutab Minar Complex submitted by DrewParsons : Detail of the first storey frieze on The Qutab Minar Tower. November 2009

Qutab Minar Complex
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by KaiHofmann : A huge Qutab Minar Site in India

Qutab Minar Complex
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by DrewParsons : The Qutab Minar Tower viewed from the base. Photographed in November 2009

Qutab Minar Complex
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by KaiHofmann : Qutab Minar complex Site in India

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Qutab Minar Complex submitted by KaiHofmann : Qutab Minar with iron pillar Site in India

Qutab Minar Complex
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by DrewParsons : The first stage of the construction for Ala-ud-din's planned but unfinished minaret showing the construction of the core for these towers at the Qutab Minar Complex. November 2009

Qutab Minar Complex
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by KaiHofmann : Qutab Minar complex Site in India

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