Four
Major Attractions of Bijapur Architecural Marvals
Ibrahim Rouza
If the Golgumbaz is Bijapur’s answer to
the Taj Mahal, the city’s finely-sculpted
Ibrahim Rouza is what the exquisite Itimad-ud-Daulah
is to Agra. Many Architects are of the openion
that the minarets of the Ibrahim Rouza are more
beautiful than the Taj Mahal’s?"
The Ibrahim Rouza’s slender minarets actually
inspired those of the Taj Mahal. Two delicately
carved structures with cupolas and a profusion
of minarets, one a mausoleum the other a mosque,
the Ibrahim Rouza’s sheer beauty leaves
you simply awestruck.
Ibrahim
Rouza in its real beauty
The ornamentation inside is fabulous: richly
decorated walls, exquisite latticed windows
of stone, superbly crafted wooden doors. Designed
by a Persian architect, the twin structures
along with a minareted gateway in the middle,
lie above basement in an arcade, with secret
passages. The entire complex stands in the middle
of a vast, manicured lawn.
Ibrahim Adil Shah II
The mausoleum contains the tombs of Ibrahim
Adil Shah II, his queen Taj Sultana, his daughter,
two sons and his mother.
Ibrahim
Rouza in its real beauty
During Ali Adil Shah I the new kingdom rose
to great heights by the middle of the 16th century
when under Ali Adil Shah I. Ali Adil Shah, great
grandson of Yusuf Shah, undertook ambitious
building projects in his capital city soon after
which were a public water supply system, the
new Jami Masjid (Grand Mosque) and the Gagan
Mahal among them.
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Notes Sources:
Bijapur and Its
Architectural Remains : With an Historical
Outline of the Adil Shahi
Dynasty/Henry Cousens. Reprint. 1996, 132 p.,
plates, plans.
Archeological Survey of India,
Vol. XXXVIII, Imperial Series.
Monoments
of Bijapur