Qutb Minar

The Qutb Minar, also spelled Qutub Minar and Qutab Minar, is a minaret and victory tower, built during the Delhi sultanate, and comprising the Qutb complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in , South Delhi, .
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  • Type: Monument
  • Description: minaret in the Mehrauli area of Delhi, India
  • Also known as: “Dhruv Stambh”, “Dhurva Stambha”, “Qutab Minar”, and “Qutub Minar”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Qutb Minar complex and Iron pillar of Delhi.

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The are monuments and buildings from the Delhi Sultanate at in , India. Construction of the Qutub Minar "victory tower" in the complex, named after the religious figure Sufi Saint Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, was begun by Qutb-ud-din Aibak, who later became the first Sultan of Delhi of the Mamluk dynasty.

Monument
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The is a metal structure 7.21 metres high with a 41-centimetre diameter that was constructed by Chandragupta II, and now stands in the Qutb complex at in , .

Monument
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The Ala'i Darwaza is the southern gateway of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque in , , , India. Built by Sultan Alauddin Khalji in 1311 and made of red sandstone, it is a square domed gatehouse with arched entrances and houses a single chamber.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mehrauli and Saket.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in , , India. It represents a constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly. The area is close to Gurugram and next to Vasant Kunj.

Suburb
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is a residential colony and the administrative headquarters of the South Delhi district of in . The local district headquarters are also situated on M.B. is situated 3 km east of Qutb Minar.

Suburb
is a residential locality in South Delhi. Situated between and , its namesake is the freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya. was initially a part of the Shahpur Jat village, in which after partition was populated in the 1950s by refugees from , after the Partition of India. is situated 3 km east of Qutb Minar.

Qutb Minar

Latitude
28.52442° or 28° 31′ 28″ north
Longitude
77.18545° or 77° 11′ 8″ east
Elevation
246 metres (807 feet)
Height
73 metres (238 feet)
Open location code
7JWVG5FP+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 369140381
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Geo­Names ID
6619395
Wiki­data ID
Q187635
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Qutb Minar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قطب منار”
  • Arabic: “قطب مينار”
  • Arabic: “منارة قطب الدين”
  • Armenian: “Կուտբ Մինար”
  • Armenian: “Քութբ Մինար”
  • Assamese: “কুতুব মিনাৰ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qütb Minar minarəsi”
  • Basque: “Qutb Minar”
  • Basque: “Qutub Minar”
  • Belarusian: “Кутб-Мінар”
  • Bengali: “কুতুব মিনার”
  • Bhojpuri: “क़ुतुब मिनार”
  • Bhojpuri: “क़ुतुब मीनार”
  • Bhojpuri: “कुतुबमीनार”
  • Bulgarian: “Кутб Минар”
  • Bulgarian: “Кутуб Минар”
  • Catalan: “Qutab Minar”
  • Cebuano: “Qutab Minar”
  • Central Kurdish: “قوتب منار”
  • Chinese: “古達明納塔”
  • Chinese: “庫特卜塔”
  • Chinese: “顾特卜塔”
  • Croatian: “Kutab minaret”
  • Czech: “Kutub Minar”
  • Czech: “Kutub Minár”
  • Dutch: “Qutab Minar”
  • Dutch: “Qutb Aibek”
  • Dutch: “Qutb Minar”
  • Dutch: “Qutub Minar”
  • Esperanto: “Minareto Kutubo”
  • Estonian: “Qutb Minar”
  • Finnish: “Qutab Minar”
  • Finnish: “Qutub Minar”
  • French: “Qutb Minar”
  • French: “Qûtb Minâr”
  • French: “Qutub Minar”
  • French: “Qwwat ul-Islâm”
  • Galician: “Qutb Minar”
  • Georgian: “კუტბ-მინარი”
  • German: “Kutab Minar”
  • German: “Qutb Minar”
  • German: “Qutb-al-Minar”
  • German: “Qutub-al-Minar”
  • Greek: “Μιναρές Κουτμπ”
  • Gujarati: “કુતુબ મિનાર”
  • Hebrew: “קוטאב מינאר”
  • Hebrew: “קוטב מינאר”
  • Hebrew: “קוטב מינר”
  • Hebrew: “קוטוב מינאר”
  • Hindi: “क़ुतब मीनार”
  • Hindi: “क़ुतुब मिनार”
  • Hindi: “कुतुब मीनार”
  • Hindi: “क़ुतुब मीनार”
  • Hindi: “कुतुब मीनार्”
  • Hindi: “क़ुतुब-मीनार”
  • Hindi: “कुतुबमीनार”
  • Hindi: “क़ुतुबमीनार”
  • Hindi: “ध्रुव स्तम्भ”
  • Hungarian: “Kutub Minár”
  • Indonesian: “Kompleks Qutb”
  • Indonesian: “Qutub Minar”
  • Italian: “Qutb Minar”
  • Japanese: “クトゥブ・ミーナール”
  • Japanese: “クトゥブ・ミナール”
  • Kannada: “ಕುತುಬ್ ಮಿನಾರ್”
  • Komering: “Qutub Minar”
  • Korean: “델리의 구트브 미나르 유적지”
  • Korean: “쿠트브 미나르”
  • Latvian: “Kutba minarets”
  • Lithuanian: “Kutbo minaretas”
  • Maithili: “कुतुब मीनार”
  • Malay: “Qutub Minar”
  • Malayalam: “Qutb complex”
  • Malayalam: “Qutb Minar”
  • Malayalam: “Qutub Minar”
  • Malayalam: “കുത്തബ് മിനാർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഖുത്ബ് മിനാർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഖുത്ബ് മീനാർ”
  • Maltese: “Qutab Minar”
  • Maltese: “Qutb Minar”
  • Maltese: “Qutub Minar”
  • Marathi: “कुतुब मिनार”
  • Nepali: “कुतुब परिसर”
  • Nepali: “कुतुब मिनार”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qutb Minar”
  • Norwegian: “Qutb Minar”
  • Oriya: “କୁତବମିନାର”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਤਬ ਮੀਨਾਰ”
  • Persian: “قطب منار”
  • Polish: “Kutb Minar”
  • Portuguese: “Qutab Minar”
  • Portuguese: “Qutb Minar e seus Monumentos”
  • Portuguese: “Qutb Minar”
  • Portuguese: “Qutub Minar”
  • Russian: “Кутаб-Минар”
  • Russian: “Кутб Минар”
  • Russian: “Кутб-Минар”
  • Russian: “Кутуб-Минар”
  • Sanskrit: “कुतुब् मिनार्”
  • Sanskrit: “विजयस्तम्भः”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱩᱛᱚᱵᱽ ᱢᱤᱱᱟᱨ”
  • Scots: “Qutb Minar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kutab Minar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kutb Minar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kutub Minar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Qutab Minar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Qutb Minar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Qutub Minar”
  • Slovak: “Kutub mínár”
  • Slovenian: “Qutb Minar”
  • Slovenian: “Qutub Minar”
  • Spanish: “Qutab Minar”
  • Swedish: “Qutab Minar”
  • Swedish: “Qutb Minar”
  • Tajik: “Қутбманор”
  • Tamil: “குதுப் நினைவுச்சின்னங்கள்”
  • Tamil: “குதுப் மினார்”
  • Telugu: “కుతుబ్ మినార్”
  • Telugu: “కుతుబ్ మీనార్”
  • Telugu: “కుతుబ్‌మినార్”
  • Telugu: “కుతుబ్‌మీనార్”
  • Telugu: “ధృవ్ స్తంభ”
  • Thai: “กุตุบมีนาร์”
  • Turkish: “Kutub Minar”
  • Turkish: “Kutub Minâr”
  • Ukrainian: “Кутб-Мінар”
  • Urdu: “قطب مینار”
  • Uzbek: “Qutb minor”
  • Western Armenian: “Քութպ Մինար”
  • Western Panjabi: “قطب مینار”
  • Wu Chinese: “顾特卜塔”
  • Yue Chinese: “庫特卜塔”
  • “कुतुब मीनार”

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