Ramgarhia Bunga
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Ramgarhia Bunga is the three-storeyed red stone watchtowers complex located near southeastern edge of the Golden Temple, Amritsar. The two minaret-style Ramgarhia Bunga high towers are visible from th
Ramgarhia Bunga and Golden Temple illuminated on Guru Nanak Dev Gurpurab
Rebuilt top dome of one of the two burj towers. The top domes were only repaired in 2001–02, almost a century after the original domes were destroyed in a 1905 earthquake.
Golden Temple in year 1880
Bunga visible behind Golden Temple in 1870
Peacock Throne
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The Peacock Throne was the imperial throne of the Indian Mughal emperors, the Sunni Muslim rulers of the Mughal Empire from the Timurid dynasty, a dynasty or Barlās clan of Turco-Mongol origin. The th
Ramgarhia Bunga
…attack, house soldiers to help fortify the area, and to protect the holy complex from desecration. The Ramgarhia Bunga houses the granite slab of Takht-e-Taus from the Red Fort on which, according to the oral tradition, all the Mughal emperors were crowned in Delhi. This slab was seized by Sikhs from Delhi…
The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his court
Shah Jahan seated on the Peacock Throne
The Persian king Nader Shah seated upon the Peacock Throne with members of the court, after his victory at the Battle of Karnal
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, as a traveller wearing Mughal dress, from his Les Six Voyages, published in 1679