The Taj Mahal, In India, is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. Over three hundred year ago the Shah Jehan built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife. Shah Jehan loved very much his wife. He wanted her tomb to be perfect. He did not care about time or money. He found the finest workers in all Asia. Altogether, over 20.000 different men worked on the building. It took over seventeen years to finish it.The building rest on a platform of red sandstone. Four slender white towers, or minarets, rise from the corners of the terrace. A large dome risese from the center of the building. Around this large dome there are four smaller domes. The building is made of fine white marble. It has eight sides and many open arches. There is an open corridor a visitor looks through carved marble screens to a central room. The bodiest of Shah Jehan and his wife lie in a tomb below this room.
A beautiful garden surrounds the Taj mahal. The green trees make the marble look even white. In front on the main entrance to the building there is along, narrow pool. If you look in this pool, you can see all the beauty of the Taj Mahal in the reflection from the water. Some people think of the Taj Mahal is most beautiful at sunset. Then the marble picks up the rosy color of the sunset. The building and its reflection in thee pool gleam like pink jewels.
Others like it best at noon when the mid-day sun makes it a pore cold white. Other think it is most beautiful by moonlight. On nights when the moon is full, hundreds of people visit the Taj Mahal to admire its soft silver radiance. Many wrap themselves in blankets and spend the night beside the pool. When morning comes an the Taj Mahal turns from silver to gold in the early sunrise.
