Lodi Gardens

The Lodi Gardens (sometimes written Lodhi Gardens, Hindi लोधी उद्यान Lodhi udyāna ) is a 360,000 acre park with several mausoleums and other buildings from the 15th and 16th centuries in the Indian capital Delhi. It is a well-kept gardens, which is often used by many Indians for walks and picnics.

Location

The Lodi Gardens are located about halfway between the approximately one kilometer west of nearby Safdarjung 's Tomb and the two kilometers east Humayun's Tomb located in the southwest of New Delhi.

History

After the tombs of Iltutmish († 1236 ), Ala ud- Din Khalji († 1316 ), the mausoleum of Ghiyas -ud -din Tughluq († 1325 ) and the tomb of Firuz Shah Tughluq († 1388 ) originated in Delhi, the capital the Sultanate same well over 100 major tombs of rulers and their family members as well as from higher government officials and military, that are distinctive of the cityscape today. The sultans of the Sayyid and Lodi Dynasty selected a terrain southwest of the city, which was about 100 years later also used by the Mughal emperor Akbar, who had built an observatory here - dates from this time a siebenbogige, light in the middle rising bridge with eight pillars ( athpula ). Later settled on the site of two villages that were not relocated during the British colonial rule (1936 ); Since 1947 the site has been officially named " Lodi Gardens ".

Buildings

Environment

Not far from the Lodi Gardens rise four other mausoleums (pictures see Related links) from the late 15th century in the immediate vicinity: the completely plastered Kale Khan ka Gumbad -, one erected in 1481 Mubarak Khan Lohani tomb for, the Chief Justice of the court Bahloul Khan Lodi, the father of Sikander Lodi; which also plastered Chote Khan ka Gumbad - which only partially plastered Bhure - Khan -ka- Gumbad and the architecturally designed idiosyncratic bathing Khan -ka- Gumbad. Unlike the steinsichtigen tombs in the Lodi Gardens, in all four buildings called the stone-working is something rather coarse and uneven, so that the plaster for a visually uniform appearance made ​​.