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Tomb of Shah Rukhn-I-Alam

Description


A tomb, octagonal in plan, 27.4 m diameter with pronounced perpendicular walls, and supported by buttresses at the angles with taper towards the top and carried up and crowned with small domed pinnacles, the tomb is constructed of finely burnt bricks of excellent quality and supported by timber framing and decorated with at least ten broad or thin horizontal string courses of cut and dressed bricks, tile faced bricks and wooden beams. The interior of the tomb is decorated with bricks both enameled as well as cut and dressed. The whole structure is divided into three storeys.


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