Monuments

Question 1

Jama Masjid

Answer 1

Masjid-i-Jahan-Numa (“world reflecting mosque”)
Built by Mughal emperor shah Jahan
Architectural style : Islamic
Designed by : Ustad Khalil
Constructed in 1656 AD
With the strips of red sandstone and white marble.
The similar architecture was built by aurangzeb BADSHAHI MASJID, at Lahore Pakistan

Question 2

What got into tentative list of World heritage site in india

Answer 2

Orchha town —> on the banks of Betwa river —>Bundelkhand region

Question 3

What are the monuments present in Orchha town

Answer 3

Chaturbhuj Temple , Orchha fort ,Sri Rama raja Mandir,
Elevated minarets —>Saaavn and Bhadon
Four palaces —>sheesh mahal, Jahangir palace, Raja mahal,Rao Praveen mahal

Question 4

Karikiyoor paintings

Answer 4

These are rock paintings in Nilgiri hills —> with a history of 5000 years —> these are getting vandalised by the tourists nearly 40% are gone

Significant of karikiyoor rock paintings are —> there is script similar to the Indus script

Question 5

Fort Emmanuel

Answer 5

Constructed by the Portuguese in 1503

It’s a ruined fort located at fort kochi beach in kochi (Cochin), Kerala

Named after Manuel 1, the king of Portugal it was the first Portuguese port in asia

In 1503 the kingdoms of Cochin granted permission to Afonso de Albuquerque to build fort Emanuel near the water front of the Arabian Sea

Fort kochi remained in the Portuguese possession until 1663, when Dutch captured the territory and destroyed the Portuguese institutions

The Dutch held the fort in their possession until 1795, when the British took control defeating the Dutch.

In 1806 the Dutch,and later British, had destroyed most of the fort walls and its bastions