 While Agra touring, you have another beautiful tourist attraction of Tomb of Itimad Ud Daulah along with one of the first seven wonders of the world the Taj Mahal. This beautiful tomb was built for Mirza Ghiyas-uddin or Ghiyas Beg by the great Mughal Empress Nur Jahan between 1622 and 1628. Her father Ghiyas Beg was made a minister and trusted treasurer in Akbar's court in 1605. Akbar's son known as Jahangir succeeded to the throne on account of the death of Akbar and appointed Ghiyas Beg as he was his chief minister or Wazir.
Not only this, he was also given the name of Itimad-ud-Daulah or the pillar of the state in the Agra Tomb of Itimad ud Daulah. In spite of given all things, the tomb of Itimad ud Daulah was built by Ghiyas Beg's daughter Nur Jahan who was the queen of Mughal Emperor Jahangir. In 1622, when her father Ghiyas Beg died, she undertook the project to build his mausoleum and Itimad-ud-Daulah was buried in that tomb which is a beautiful tourist attraction of Agra tours in today's time.
In the lush green garden, the Tomb of Itimad Ud Daulah seems like a jewel box, situated on a bank of Yamuna. The tomb of Itimad ud Daulah is the first pure white marble tomb of Agra Uttar Pradesh in India . It boasts of fine pietra dura or stone insert decoration emphasizing cypresses, wine glasses, and variety of geometrical arabesque. There is a jail partition as well as four small minarets rising at the corners of the small mausoleum structure for the tours in Agra .
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