Work
Taj Mahal
Explore in the Atlas →A white marble mausoleum commissioned by Shah Jahan for Mumtaz Mahal, it is the apex of Mughal funerary architecture, fusing Persian, Islamic and Indian forms into a paradisical garden-tomb.
Memory Ritual Power
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Agra, India
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmology
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- Cardinal axesAxis mundi
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipText drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Islamic menaSouth asian
Connections
- exemplifies Mughal Architecture
- exemplifies Islamic Architecture
Sources
- Ebba Koch. The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra. Thames & Hudson, 2006.
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Taj Mahal (World Heritage List 252). UNESCO, 1983.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Taj Mahal." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/taj-mahal/. Accessed July 17, 2026.