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   Red Fort

   The fort Shah Jahan built between 1639 and 1648 when he moved the Mughal capital from Agra, its red sandstone wall running two and a half kilometres. India's prime minister addresses the country from its ramparts every 15 August.

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   Qutb Minar

   A victory tower of seventy-three metres in five tapering storeys, the tallest brick minaret in the world. It was begun in 1199 by the first sultan of Delhi and finished by his successor; the lowest storey carries Hindu motifs and the upper ones Islamic.

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   Humayun's Tomb

   The tomb the emperor Humayun's widow built for him between 1565 and 1572, and the first great garden-tomb in India — a domed chamber set in a walled charbagh. Everything about the Taj Mahal begins here.

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   Jama Masjid, Delhi

   The largest mosque in India, built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656 in red sandstone and white marble on a rise above Old Delhi. Its courtyard holds twenty-five thousand people and its steps are the centre of the quarter's street life.

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   Lotus Temple

   A Baháʼí house of worship completed in 1986, built as twenty-seven marble petals folded into nine sides with nine doors. It has no images, no sermons and no clergy, and anyone of any faith may sit in it.

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   India Gate

   A memorial arch of forty-two metres designed by Edwin Lutyens and finished in 1931, carrying the names of Indian soldiers killed in the First World War and on the northwest frontier. Some seventy-four thousand of the empire's Indian dead are commemorated.

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   iron pillar of Delhi

   An iron pillar seven metres high raised in the fourth or fifth century and moved here later, which has barely rusted in sixteen hundred years. The reason is the phosphorus in the metal, which forms a protective film — a result modern metallurgy took until the 1900s to explain.

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   Akshardham

   A Hindu temple complex opened in 2005 and cut entirely from sandstone and marble without structural steel, by several thousand craftsmen. Its evening fountain show and boat ride through Indian history are unabashedly popular.

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   Qutb complex

   The group of Delhi Sultanate monuments at Mehrauli, World Heritage since 1993. Besides the minaret it holds the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque, built with columns taken from demolished temples, an unfinished tower twice the intended size, and the rustless iron pillar.

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    Tomb of Safdar Jang

    The last of the great Mughal garden tombs, built in 1754 for a nawab of Awadh with marble stripped from an earlier tomb, because there was no longer money for new stone. Contemporaries called it the last flicker of a dying lamp, and it is the more affecting for it.

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   Gurudwara Bangla Sahib

   A Sikh gurdwara built where the eighth Guru nursed victims of a smallpox and cholera epidemic in 1664 before dying of it himself. The water of its tank is taken as healing, and its kitchen feeds tens of thousands a day without charge.

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   Connaught Place

   Two concentric rings of Georgian colonnade, built from 1929 and named for the Duke of Connaught, laid out by the British as the shopping centre of the new capital. The rents inside the inner circle are among the highest of any office address in the world.

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   Bharat Mandapam

   An exhibition hall inside the Pragati Maidan complex in New Delhi and among the largest convention centres in India. The complex opened in 1972 and this building was unveiled for the G20 New Delhi summit in 2023.

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   Raj Ghat and associated memorials

   Memorial in Delhi on the bank of the Yamuna where Gandhi was cremated in January 1948. A black marble slab marks the spot and a flame burns beside it.

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   Chandni Chowk

   Laid out by Jahanara, Shah Jahan's daughter, in 1650, with a canal running down the middle that caught the moonlight and gave the street its name. The canal is gone; the wedding-cloth shops, the parathas and Khari Baoli, the largest spice market in Asia, are not.

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   Laxminarayan Temple

   The Birla temple of 1939, the first large Hindu temple built in Delhi in the modern era. Gandhi agreed to open it on one condition — that people of every caste be admitted — and that condition is carved at the entrance.

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   National Museum

   One of India's largest museums, holding some two hundred thousand objects across five millennia — the bronze dancing girl from Mohenjo-daro among them, along with the Central Asian material Aurel Stein brought back from the silk road.

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   Gandhi Smriti

   The house where Gandhi spent his last hundred and forty-four days and was shot on 30 January 1948. Concrete footprints mark the walk he took to the prayer ground, and the room he slept in is kept as it was.

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   Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah

   The tomb of Nizamuddin Auliya, the Sufi saint who died in 1325, in a lane of shrines and cook-shops. Qawwali is sung here on Thursday evenings, as it has been for centuries; the poet Amir Khusrau lies a few metres away.

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    Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib

    One of Delhi's nine historic gurdwaras, standing in Chandni Chowk on the spot where the ninth Sikh Guru, Tegh Bahadur, was executed in 1675. Baghel Singh raised the first shrine here in 1783, on the site of the Mughal kotwali; the present building went up under British rule.

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