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Friday, August 19, 2005

Pretty much everything in this place has five arches, signifying the five tenets of Islam, but there is also Hindu, Syrian, Turkish and Greek architecture incoporated into the buildings too, because Shah Jahan thought it better to accept these people rather than oppress them. His son thought the latter was the best idea, so the the strength of the Mughals ended with him.

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