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Description
Property Name: Tomb of Shaykh Salim Chisti
Inventory No: 91-5619-8
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2009-06-11
Country (State party): India
Province: Uttar Pradesh
Town: Fatehpur Sikri
Geographic coordinates: 27° 5′ 42.55″ N
77° 39′ 46.05″ E
Historic Period: 16th century, 2nd half
Year of Construction: 1581-82
Style: Mughal
Original Use: Mausoleum
Current Use: Mausoleum
Architect: Unknown
Significance
The Sufi Saykh Salim Chisti’ tomb is situated in the courtyard of the congregational mosque. Resembling the Hindu temples, the tomb has a porch at the front. The whole building is shaded by a stone projection supported by serpentine brackets. The laclik floral and geometric patterns on the brackets and the white marble lattice screens are among the finest exaples in India.
Selection Criteria
iv. to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
The materials of the tomb indicate that its current form is the product of a renovation by Jahangir, one undertaken approximately 20 years after Akbar built the original structure.
References
S. A. A. Rizvi: Fatebpur Sikri (New Delhi, 1972)
M. Brand and G. D. Lowry: Akbar’s India: Art from the Mughal City of Victory (New York, 1985)
R. Nath: Fatehpur Sikri: Forms, Techniques & Concepts (Jaipur, 1988)
Tillotson, G.H.R. 1990. Mughal India. San Francisco: Chronicle Books
Ed. Zeenut Ziad Foreword by Milo Cleveland Beach, The Magnificient Mughals, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002
Websources: https://archnet.org