Jal Mahal
Jal Mahal is a castle in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Jal Mahal is situated nearby to Taj Mahal Museum, as well as near Taj Mahal Mughal Garden.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Taj Mahal and Mehtab Bagh.
Taj Mahal
Photo: Kumaravels, CC BY 2.5 in.
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. Taj Mahal is situated 250 metres northeast of Jal Mahal.
Mehtab Bagh
Garden
Photo: Aks khandelwal, Public domain.
Mehtab Bagh is a charbagh complex in Agra, North India. It lies north of the Taj Mahal complex and the Agra Fort on the opposite side of the Yamuna River, in the flood plains.
Taj Mahal
Metro station
Taj Mahal metro station is the under-ground station of the Yellow Line of the Agra Metro. This station is owned by the Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation, and was opened to the public on 6 March 2024. Taj Mahal is situated 730 metres southwest of Jal Mahal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agra.
Agra
Agra, a city around 200 km from Delhi, is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort. There are also many other buildings and tombs from Agra's days of glory as the capital of the Mughal Empire, as well as the abandoned city of Fatehpur Sikri outside town, itself a World Heritage Site.
Jal Mahal
- Type: Castle
- Also known as: “Water Palace”
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Agra, Uttar Pradesh, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.17315° or 27° 10′ 23″ northLongitude
78.04064° or 78° 2′ 26″ eastOpen location code
7JVW52FR+77OpenStreetMap ID
way 346806298OpenStreetMap feature
building=palaceOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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