Humayun's Tomb
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How it came to be
Humayun's Tomb is the burial place of Humayun, the second Mughal emperor. It was built in the 1560s, under the reign of his son Akbar, by Persian and Indian craftsmen working together. The designer was Mirak Mirza Ghiyas, a Persian architect brought from Herat; when he died before the work was finished, his son Sayyid Muhammad completed it.
Raised on a high platform, the tomb stands 42.5 metres tall under a marble-clad double dome. It was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, set at the centre of a charbagh garden divided by water channels. More than 150 members of the Mughal family are buried in its chambers, which earned it the name dormitory of the Mughals.
During the rebellion of 1857 the last emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, took refuge here and was captured by the British officer Captain William Hodson. The tomb was inscribed in 1993, and from 1997 the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Archaeological Survey of India restored it, bringing water back into the garden channels.
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