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Jantar-Mantar - Landmark in delhi

The Jantar-Mantar is situated in the city of New Delhi, Delhi. It is an important landmark and tourist attraction of Delhi. It was build as an observatory. Jantar-Mantar is only one of the five observatories which is situated in Delhi. The remaining four are situated at Jaipur, Varanasi, Ujjain, and Mathura. The construction of this historical building was started by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II in 1710 and completed in 1727.

The original meaning of Jantar-Mantra is Jantar for instrument and Mantra for formula. The various abstract structures within the Jantar Mantar are, in fact, instruments that were use for keeping track of celestial bodies. Nevertheless, the Jantar Mantar is not only a time-keeper of celestial bodies: it also tales a lot about the technological achievement under the Rajput kings and their endeavor to unravel the mysterious pertaining to astronomy. The whole structure is made of stone and marble with each of then having an engraved astronomical scale. It has always attracted architects, historians and scientists from all over the world. Jantar Mantar finally got the status of a national monument in 1948.

Purana Qila

The second Mughal Emperor, Humayun has constructed the Fort in 1538. After Babur arrived in India, he did nothing in his lifetime, but fight. Apart from that, his entire concentration was on building mosques. He considered them to be the centers from where Islam would take off. When Humayun decided to make a city of his own, he decided on the site of the ancient city of his own, he decided on the site ancient city of Indraprastha (Delhi). Humayun was quite a scholar with a fine grasp on such matters. Therefore, it is quite certain that the site was chosen deliberately. When Sher Shah Suri overthrew him, he destroyed most of Dinpanah (refuge of the faithful) as the city of Humayun was called, to make way for his own Dilli Sher Shani or Shergarh. Incidentally, Humayun was probably the only emperor in history who built a city in Delhi and did not give it his own name -this was typical of Humayun’s rather sophisticated and dreamy character.