A clay model of the Taj Mahal, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Taj Mahal in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

Agra · India

Taj Mahal

73 metres · 240 feet

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Height
73 m240 ft
Completed
1653
By
Shah Jahan
Coordinates
27° 10′ 30″ N78° 02′ 32″ E · 27.1751, 78.0421

A mausoleum on a square plinth: chamfered corners, a great pointed iwan on every face, four chhatris round an onion dome on its drum, and a minaret at each corner of the plinth.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Agra, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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