Ibrahim Roza

Presented by : Herik Ghael

Janki Patel

Brief Information

• Ibrahim Roza, a beautiful tomb with artistically laid out corridors and interconnecting buildings with richly decorated walls and perforated stone windows. Ibrahim Roza, the mausoleum of Ibrahim Adil Shah II , is said to have inspired the Taj Mahal in Agra. At the centre of the town are large arches signifying the forts and its beauty in moonlight. Even though many of the structures were damaged by Aurangazeb.

• One of the finest groups of buildings in bijapur is that known as the Ibrahim Roza (garden) in which stand Ibrahim. It’s tomb and its attendant mosque.

• The two buildings are raised on a large platform within a great square-walled enclosure, a tank and fountain lie between them, the mausoleum being to the east and the mosque to the west.

• The tomb chamber way built by Ibrahim

For his queen, Taj Sultana, but actually,

he was the first to be buried therein.

• The building of the group must have occupied most of Ibrahim. It’s reign, A.D. 1580-1626.

• The plate illustrates one of the enriched balconies near the north east corner of the mosque, the decorative minarets, double cornice, and supporting brackets are all characteriestic of the fully developed Bijapur manner.

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