A Complete Travel Guide for Taj Mahal – The India’s Favorite Heritage Monument Most everyone has heard of the Taj Mahal, but besides knowing what it looks like, do you know what it actually is? Famous poet Rabindranath Tagore portrayed it as ‘a teardrop on the cheek of the universe’ and Rudyard Kipling called it ‘the embodiment of all things pure’. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan famously said – “it made the moon and the sun drop tears on it”. The Taj Mahal is a palatial marble mausoleum located in Agra, India and built by Shah Jahan in between 1631 and 1648 for his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was cited as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the worlds heritage". For its construction, masons, stone-cutters, inlayers, carvers, painters, calligraphers, dome builders and other artisans were requisitioned from the whole of the empire and also from the Central Asia and Iran. Ustad-Ahmad Lahori was