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Taj Mahal

Agra, Agra District, Uttar Pradesh Mughal funerary architecture; Islamicate garden tomb

Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 29, 2026. Next scan Oct 29, 2026.

Photograph

Earliest republishable photograph in this record.

Albumen photograph from the 1860s by Samuel Bourne showing the Taj Mahal at Agra from the east.

East view, 1860s

Samuel Bourne photographed the Taj Mahal in the 1860s. This is the earliest photograph of the mausoleum stored here. Earlier painters’ views were not ingested.

1860s Samuel Bourne, 1860s. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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Mausoleum dome Unknown or insufficient evidence · Medium confidence No measured plan is stored. The feature is named from the secondary account and the historic photographs, not from a drawing.