Do you know that Shahjahan wanted to make another Taj Mahal in Black Marble ?

It was planned just opposite the bank of river Yamuna. This was to act as his burial place, as his own mausoleum. Shahjahan had planned to connect the two Taj Mahal white and black with a beautifully decorated bridge. People who would have come to see Taj Mahal would have felt the love and pangs of separation (signified by the separate burial of their bodies and still connected by a bridge) even many centuries after their death.

What a sight it would have been had Shahjahan completed the Black Taj Mahal!

Unfortunately he couldn't complete due to the war of succession with his son Aurangzeb.
He spend the remaining eight years of his life under imprisonment looking at the Taj Mahal and brooding over his incomplete dream.
Ultimately he was buried besides his wife Mumtaj Mahal in the Taj Mahal itself .

The Black Taj Mahal existed as a soul without body...

The Project

The Black Taj Mahal Project aims to complete the Black Taj Mahal Project. A smaller version of how the original one would have looked! It is in perfect scale, down to the minutest details of the inlay work, relief carving, filigree work and intricate calligraphy.