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Named after the Afghan ruler Sikander Lodi, Slkandra is better known today as the last resting place of Akbar. The emperor began to build his own garden mausoleum during his lifetime, a red sandstone monument in a chahar-bagh or 4-square formal garden. A magnificent marble-inlaid gateway leads up to the open, airy, four-tiered structure which is topped by a white marble cenotaph and screen on the fifth storey. Shahjehan who completed the mausoleum after his father's death.

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