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Description
Property Name: Humayun’s Tomb
Inventory No: 91-11-3
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2007-09-26
Country (State party): India
Province: Delhi
Town: Shergarh
Geographic coordinates: 28° 35′ 35.71″ N
77° 15′ 2.32″ E
Historic Period: Mughal
Year of Construction: 1570
Style: Mughal
Original Use: Mausoleum
Current Use: Mausoleum
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Humayun`s tomb is the first garden-tomb in India. The design of the Taj Mahal is inspired from Humayun’s Tomb.
Selection Criteria
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance.
State of Preservation
Humayun`s tomb has protected its importance throughout the history, so it maintained its original purpose and form. The façades have been cleaned. The garden has been revitalized. A partnership with the Aga Khan Foundation and the ASI (Archaeological Survey of In India) to restore the tomb, started ın 2015 .
References
Ed. Zeenut Ziad Foreword by Milo Cleveland Beach, The Magnificient Mughals, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002
Hattstein M., Delius, P. (Ed.), Islam: Art and Architecture; Köln, Könemann, 2000.
Henri Stierlin, Architektur des Islam, Atlantis, Zürich 1979
Website of Unesco: http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=232
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/232/?gallery=1&index=1&
Website of Archnet: http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=8
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