According to the letters of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, its commissioner intended to erect a duplicate facing it and composed of black marble.
According to the letters of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, its commissioner intended to erect a duplicate facing it and composed of black marble. Sebastian Manrique, a Dominican missionary, credited the jeweler Geronimo Veroneo as its architect, though the claim has now been dismissed as a false attempt to give a Westerner credit. Leading up to it is a garden with a 64 flowerbed grid, called a charbagh. On its eastern side, a decorative red sandstone structure, or jawab, provides symmetry to the twin mosque on the west side, which explains the four tilted white minarets that frame the central tomb. FTP, name this domed structure located in Agra and built at the orders of Shah Jahan.
According to the letters of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, its commissioner intended to erect a duplicate facing it and composed of black marble.
{Taj Mahal}