Dicovered by Admiral Louis de Bougainvillea,1768 Native Brazilian beauty has found home in India like nothing else, covers the Jaipur-Dilli highway and most gardens everywhere
INDIAN GREY HORNBILLS Lodhi has a group of resident Hornbills, its easy to spot 4 together at one time. there area covers Defence col too, have spotted them occasionally at the parks.
the other spotting has been at Khel gaon, maybe its the same group ....
I saw them first time in CME,Pune in 1992-3, seemed liked some pre-historic creature.
ASI (Archealogical survey of India) protected momument
false double storey structure
8years old Bday party at Bara Gumbad
This three domed mosque was built in A.H. 900 (1494) during Sikandar Lodhi’s reign, according to an inscription on its southern interior.
The mosque hall is faced with five arched openings and a frontage of bracket and chhaja cornice above them . the tapering minarets at the rear are in Tughlaq style but seem to anticipate the octagonal towers of early Mughal and Sur periods. The oriel windows on the north and south also anticipate features of later mosques.
The interior of the mosque is extremely rich in arabesque stucco decorations and paintings consisting of floral and geometric designs and Quaranic inscriptions partaking both the Tughlaq and Mughal features, it occupies an important place in the development of the Mughal mosque
The long hall in front of the mosque was built as a Miham Khaana (guest house).
The tank in the centre of the courtyard appears to have been filled later and a grave laid there.
details Bara Gumbad
Sish gumbad through the Bara gumbad compound
Sish Gumbad
meaning "head" , maybe even "north of " Bara Gumbad
The Bara Gumbad and Sish Gumbad are tombs, the Bara Gumbad is also a mosque daily prayers are offered here.
image : wikipedia
image : wikipedia
BougainVillea - full bloom @ Lodhi Garden
in bloom
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