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Qutub Minar Delhi
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The highest stone tower in India, the Qutub Minar was built by Qutbuddin Aibak, the viceroy of Mohammed Ghori in 1192.
It was built to celebrate Ghori's victory over the Rajputs.
The tower and the victory are very significant, because both heralded the birth of a new dynasty Slave Dynasty.
And it laid the foundations of the Delhi Sultanate.
And the rest, as one would put it after witnessing this monumental tower, was history.
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The Minar is a five-storey building with a height of 72.5 metres. The first storey of the Qutb Minar was completed in the lifetime of Qutbuddin.
His son-in-law and successor, Iltumush, added the next three storeys.
Within the complex, is the famous Iron Pillar which has stood for millennia without rusting, Quwwat-ul-Islam, the first mosque built in India, and the Alai Darwaza, the gateway to the complex erected by Alauddin Khilji.
The entry to the Minar has been closed, after the tower became infamous for the several suicides that were committed here.
Qutb Minar is a successful tribute to architecture, as it captures one's attention by its sheer mass appeal.
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Even on close encounter, the attention lingers, owing to the delicate and almost ethereal carvings.
Address: Mehrauli, Delhi-Gurgaon Road
Timings: 6 am to 6 pm
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