| Safdarjung Tomb, Delhi | |
|---|---|
 Front view, September 2012 | |
  Location within Delhi | |
| General information | |
| Type | Tomb |
| Architectural style | Mughal, Indo-Islamic |
| Location | New Delhi, India |
| Coordinates | 28°35′21″N 77°12′38″E / 28.589266°N 77.210506°E |
| Completed | 1754 |
Safdarjung's tomb is a sandstone and marble mausoleum in Delhi, India. It was built in 1754 in the late Mughal Empire style for Nawab Safdarjung. The monument has an ambience of spaciousness and an imposing presence with its domed and arched red, brown and white coloured structures. Safdarjung, Nawab of Oudh, was made prime minister of the Mughal Empire (Wazir ul-Mamlak-i-Hindustan) when Ahmed Shah Bahadur ascended the throne in 1748.
The tomb, within a garden, is in a late version of the style of earlier Mughal imperial tombs, most famously the Taj Mahal, with inside "eight paradises" (hasht bihisht) or eight rooms around the main chamber under the dome, and a garden divided into four parts outside. This was the first time someone outside the immediate imperial Mughal family built themselves such a tomb and garden complex, reflecting the greatly diminished powers of the emperors by this date.[1]
- ^ Dadlani, Chanchal, in Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local, ed. Michele Bacci, p. 179-180, 2016, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691167282, google books