The Wooden Audience Halls of Shah Jahan: Sources and Reconstruction
2014
Even before the great audience halls at Agra, Lahore, and Delhi, Shah Jahan (r. 1628–58) built wooden audience halls as a new type of palace architecture for his court receptions. Contemporary descriptions, paintings, and regional wooden mosques enable a reconstruction that also sheds light on the exchange of forms and ideas between Mughal India and Iran.
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