Mausoleum & dome
The tomb stands on a raised terrace right by the Yamuna. Above the square building sits the great onion dome, ringed by four smaller chhatris.
Example: white frame · 20 × 20 cm
27.1751° N · 78.0421° EEDITION · 02
Taj Mahal
The mausoleum, four minarets and the divided garden — the whole complex at Agra in a single relief. The motif is fixed; you choose the size and the frame.
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Nothing here is accidental.
Plinth, dome, four towers, sixteen beds — apart from a single detail, the complex is perfectly symmetrical.
The relief keeps that order: the raised terrace, the four minarets on its corners, the water axis straight down the middle of the garden. The spacing is the same as in Agra.
THE MONUMENT IN RELIEF
Agra, on a single axis.
Shah Jahan had a whole complex built for Mumtaz Mahal: gateway, garden, water and tomb all sit on one line down to the Yamuna.
Construction began in 1632, a year after Mumtaz Mahal died. The mausoleum in white Makrana marble stood by around 1643; it took roughly two more decades until the mosque, the jawab, the gateway and the gardens were finished. The four minarets lean slightly outwards — should they fall, they fall away from the tomb.
You will find all of it again on the model: the raised terrace by the river, the four towers, the four-part garden with its sixteen beds, and the water axis running exactly down the centre.
1632Construction began under Shah Jahan
1983UNESCO World Heritage Site since
27.1751° NLatitude of Agra
EXPLORE THE COMPLEX
What makes the Taj Mahal.
Pick a part of the complex — the map shows you where it sits.
Parts of the complex
The four minarets
Four slender towers stand at the corners of the terrace, each leaning slightly outwards. In an earthquake they were meant to fall away from the tomb, not onto it.
Mosque & jawab
To the west a mosque in red sandstone, to the east its mirror image. The jawab has no prayer niche — it stands there so the axis works.
Charbagh — the divided garden
The garden follows the Persian charbagh: two watercourses split it into four quadrants, each of those into four again. Sixteen beds, all strictly equal.
Water axis & basin
Where the channels cross sits a raised marble basin. From there the mausoleum stands in the water — the view almost every photograph is looking for.
Darwaza-i Rauza
The red sandstone gateway holds the view back until the last moment. Step through, and the tomb appears all at once at the end of the axis.
FROM MAP TO OBJECT
How your relief is made.
The motif is fixed, but every piece is still printed and framed one at a time — here in Heidelberg.
Geometry
Ground plan, gardens and heights hold the same proportions on the model as they do on site.
Relief
The printer lays down layer after layer until the terrain has real height. Every piece is then checked by hand.
Framing
All that is left to choose is size and frame — the motif stays exactly as it is.
