Did You Know Taj Mahal Can Never Be Lit At Night, Stayed in the Dark for 400 Years?

The Taj Mahal is a tomb that the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built for his wife after she died.  It is one of the seven wonders of the world, but it mysteriously can never be light up at night, remaining dark shrouded in unearthly moonlight or clouds at night and has never been lit up for 400 years!  Attempts to try have failed in a mystical way.

When the government attempted to install lights in the Taj Mahal’s garden, all of the lights were eerily shattered on the first night. The same thing happened a second time, a ghostly event.

Stories go that his wife, Mumtaz’s soul rests every night and wanders around the beautiful tomb , and superatural powers protect the tomb from being lit up.  

History

The Taj Mahal is one of the seven wonders of the world and means ‘Crown of the Palace” and is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658) to house the tomb of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the heart of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in well-organized gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.

Construction of the mausoleum was essentially completed in 1643, but work continued on other phases of the project for additional years.

The Taj Mahal complex is thought to have been completed in its entirety in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be around 32 million rupees, which in 2020 would be approximately 70 billion rupees (about the U.S. $1 billion). The construction project employed some 20,000 artisans under the guidance of a board of architects led by the court architect to the emperor, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.

The Taj Mahal was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 for being “the Jewel of Muslim Art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world’s heritage”. It is recognized by many as the greatest illustration of Mughal architecture and a symbol of India’s rich history. The Taj Mahal attracts 7–8 million visitors a year and in 2007, it was declared a winner of the New 7 Wonders of the World (2000–2007) initiative.

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