Examples of using Minar in English and their translations into Malay
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Nelson Minar of MIT.
Minar is a Persian word for tower.
It is situated near the Qutub Minar in Delhi.
The Qutb Minar(left, begun c. 1200) next to the Alai Darwaza gatehouse(1311); Qutb Complex in Delhi.
This tomb is situated near Qutub Minar in Delhi.
Alauddin Khalji started building the Alai Minar, after he had doubled the size of Quwwat ul-Islam mosque built before 1311AD.
The famous iron pillar is located on the stone pavement in front of it,while Qutub Minar is located west of the main entrance.
Due to the shiny nature of coloured tiles on the minar, local people call the monument as″Kaanchina Khamba″(Kannada; Kaanch=Glass, Khamba=Tower).
The Qubbat-ul-Islam Mosque(Dome of Islam), later corrupted into Quwwat-ul Islam,[2]stands next to the Qutb Minar.[ 3][ 4][ 5][ 6].
The Minar was added upon by his successor Iltutmish(a.k.a. Altamash), and much later by Firoz Shah Tughlaq, a Sultan of Delhi from the Tughlaq dynasty in 1368 AD.
Tughlaqabad Fort is 6 km from Grand FFOUR,while Qutub Minar is 7 km from the property.
The Kos Minar is a solid round pillar, around 30 feet(9.1 m) in height that stands on a masonry platform built with bricks and plastered over with lime.
Noted Sufi poet and saint of his times, Amir Khusro in his work, Tarikh-i-Alai,mentions Ala-ud-din's intentions to extend the mosque and also constructing another minar.[40].
The Qutb Minar is inspired by the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, it is an important example of early Afghan architecture, which later evolved into Indo-Islamic Architecture.
The tomb of the Delhi Sultanate ruler, Iltutmish, a second Sultan of Delhi(r. 1211- 1236 AD), built 1235 CE,is also part of the Qutb Minar Complex in Mehrauli, New Delhi.
The Qutb Minar complex, which drew 3.9 million visitors in 2006, was India's most visited monument that year, ahead of the Taj Mahal(with 2.5 million visitors).[9].
Abul Fazl recorded in Akbar Nama that in the year 1575 AD, Akbar issued an order that at every Kos on the way from Agra to Ajmer,a pillar or a minar should be erected for the comfort of the travelers.[4][5].
Alai Darwaza in 1870s The dome from below Alai Darwaza with Qutb Minar at the back Alai Darwaza with the Tomb of Imam Zamin at the foreground Doorway of the darwaza Interior of the darwaza Window of the darwaza Floral motifs and Islamic calligraphy.
It has a diverse culture, and includes the Hindu pilgrimage centres of Char Dham, Haridwar, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Mathura, Allahabad, Vaishno Devi and Pushkar, the Buddhist pilgrimage centres of Sarnath and Kushinagar, the Sikh Golden Temple as well as world heritage sites such as the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Khajuraho temples, Hill Forts of Rajasthan, Jantar Mantar( Jaipur), Bhimbetka Caves, Sanchi monuments,Qutb Minar, Red Fort, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri and the Taj Mahal.
The Qutb Minar is 72.5 metres(239 ft) high, has five distinct storeys, each marked by a projecting balcony carried on muqarnas corbel and tapers from a diameter 14.3 metres at the base to 2.7 metres at the top, which is 379 steps away.
The Qutb complex are monuments and buildings from the Delhi Sultanate at Mehrauli in Delhi in India.[1]The Qutub Minar in the complex, named after Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, was built by Qutb-ud-din Aibak, who later became the first Sultan of Delhi of the Mamluk dynasty.
The minar was first struck by lightning in 1368 AD, which knocked off its top storey, after that it was replaced by the existing two floors by Firoz Shah Tughlaq, a later Sultan of Delhi 1351 to 1388, and faced with white marble and sandstone enhancing the distinctive variegated look of the minar, as seen in lower three storeys.
Many subsequent rulers, including the Tughlaqs, Alauddin Khalji and the British added structures to the complex.[7] Apart from the Qutb Minar and the Quwwat ul-Islam Mosque, other structures in the complex include the Alai Darwaza gate, the Alai Minar, the Iron pillar, the ruins of several earlier Jain temples, and the tombs of Iltutmish, Alauddin Khalji and Imam Zamin.[4].
After an accident involving school children, entry to the Qutub Minar is closed to public since 1981, while Qutub archaeological area remains open for public.[21] In 2004, Seismic monitors were installed on the minar, which revealed in 2005 Delhi earthquake, no damage or substantial record of shakes.
He conceived this tower to be two times higher than Qutb Minar in proportion with the enlarged mosque.[39] The construction was however abandoned, just after the completion of the 24.5-metre-high(80 ft) first-story core; soon after death of Alauddin in 1316, and never taken up by his successors of Khalji dynasty.
It was repaired by Major R.Smith of the Royal Engineers who restored the Qutub Minar in 1823 replacing the cupola with a Bengali-style chhatri which was later removed by Governor General, Lord Hardinge in 1848, as it looked out of place, and now stands in the outer lawns of the complex, popularly known as Smith's Folly.[ 1][ 2][ 19][ 20].
