LODI GARDEN ARCHITECTURE

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HISTORY Lodi dynasty (1451-1526)

displaced sayyid dynasty (1414-1451) and came as ruler.

Earlier Lodi garden place was the villagers place under Lodi dynasty it was converted into gardens.

In 1936, British resetteled the park and also named Lodi garden as lady Willington park. Again after the independence renamed as Lodi garden.

Bahulal Lodi established Lodi dynasty, earlier he was governor of Punjab , he took advantage of sayyid weak position and captured Punjab and later on Delhi.

CURRENT MASTER PLAN

BADA GUMBAD

4m

The first example in Delhi of what is called the ‘full dome’, that is, a dome which is a complete semi circle. Square in plan

4 m

27 m

Rises from a sixteen-sided drum

Outside structure would appear to have two storeys as you enter you see that it has a single chamber magnificent high ceiling .

Its plinth is decorated on the east, south, and west with ogee arch openings set into rectangular frames.

The walls of the Bara Gumbad are approx. 12 meters tall, above which a hemispherical dome on a hex decagonal drum extends another 14 meters from the roof level, for a total building height of 29 meters above ground level.

MALIS KHANA BADA GUMBAD RUBBLE PLATFORM BARAGUMBADMOSQUE

Typically Indian carved corbels often used

in conjunction with the arch.

The square plan of the room transitions into an octagon via squinches , which then support the thirty-two-sided drum and the dome.

Each face of the drum is described by an ogee arched niche set in a rectangular frame.

Tomb interior is unormanted.

Below this projection is band of leaves carved in relief.

This group of buildings is raised on a high platform in the middle of which is an elevated area that might have been a grave, made up of rubble masonary.

BARA GUMBAD MOSQUE MAJLIS KHANA

The Friday mosque is a single aisled, rectangular building, approx. 30 meters (north-south) by 8 meters (east-west).

The doorways immediately to the side of the central portal are about 5m wide, while those at the two ends are approx. 1.5m

Each arch is finished in plaster and embellished with intricate carved Arabic inscriptions.

Rectangular in plan, measuring about 27 meters (north-south) by 7 seven meters (east-west).

The building is from the common plinth through its west wall, which is divided into five bays, mirroring the eastern elevation of the mosque opposite it.

Interior has 3 chambers central one is largest of 5m others 2.5 m each.

SHEESH GUMBAD

Facing the Bara Gumbad is the Sheesh Gumbad, literally ‘glass dome’, so called because the dome and parts of the facade were once completely covered with coloured glazed tiles.

The transition from a square plan to the circular dome is achieved by the use of broad squinches supported on stone pendetives.

It was made similar to Bara Gumbad having square plan with a double-storeyed appearance, but this building is somewhat different in its ornamentation.

Topped with octagonal minarets in the corners, the exterior divides itself into two storeys with the help of a projecting horizontal cornice.

MOHAMMAD SHAH TOMB

This handsome building constructed of Delhi quartzite stone stands on a high platform.

An arched verandah surrounds the central octagonal chamber which is nearly 15 m wide.

Each side of the inner chamber has a beam-and-lintel doorway which originally had perforated screens, with the main entrance to the chamber from the south.

The shape of the chamber ingeniously transforms from an eight-sided octagon to a sixteen-sided, hexa-decagon.

Sixteen sides then form a circular dome above the soffit of which is ornamented with incised stucco plasterwork.

A cluster of small chattris (pillared kiosks) surround the main dome which is crowned with an inverted lotus finial.

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