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Qutub Minar (Qutb Minar) is a huge minaret with a height of 72 meters, which was built in the 12th century and is situated in South Delhi. The minaret and the adjacent complex of mosques and mausoleums, the oldest specimens of Indo-Islamic architecture in India.


In addition to the usual purpose to call people to prayer in the mosque of quwwat-ul-Islam, the minaret was used as a tower of victory to show the power of Islam, and also as a tower for the overview of neighborhoods to protect the city. Among historians there is also a view that the minaret was named after the first Turkic Sultan of Qutbuddin Ibaka, according to another hypothesis — in honor of the Saint from Baghdad Khwaja of Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, who moved to India and enjoyed great prestige of Akbar.


The complex is the famous iron pillar, which is several thousand years does not rust (although sometimes the rust is still visible). Prior to that, she was standing in the yard of a Hindu temple. Scientists still are unable to unravel the secret of its manufacture.


But the tourists like to visit this place, considering it places of India, taking pictures for memory. Qutub Minar is listed in UNESCO as a world heritage site.




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