Chausath Khamba | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Islam |
District | New Delhi |
Province | Delhi |
Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Tomb |
Leadership | Jahangir |
Year consecrated | 1624 |
Location | |
Location | New Delhi, India |
Territory | Delhi |
Geographic coordinates | 28°35′28.7″N 77°14′30.5″E / 28.591306°N 77.241806°E |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Koka Khan-i-Azam |
Type | Tomb |
Style | Mughal architecture |
Completed | 1623 |
Specifications | |
Direction of façade | Open on four sides |
Dome(s) | 25 |
Materials | Marble |
Chausath Khamba, also spelled Chaunsath Khamba, is a tomb built during 1623–24. It is located in Nizamuddin precincts of Sufi Muslim shrines and tombs in New Delhi, India. The name means "64 pillars" in Urdu and Hindi. It was built by Mirza Aziz Koka, son of Ataga Khan, as a mausoleum for himself, at the time when Mughal Emperor Jahangir ruled from Delhi. Mirza Aziz Koka had served several times as Jahangir’s Governor of Gujarat before he died in Gujarat.[1][2][3]