Safdarjung’s Tomb is a walled Mughal garden tomb on Aurobindo Marg in New Delhi, built in the early 1750s for Mirza Muqim Abul Mansur Khan, Nawab of Awadh and wazir to the emperor Ahmad Shah Bahadur. The domed mausoleum, faced in sandstone and marble, stands on a raised terrace at the centre of a charbagh, a four-part garden divided by water channels, and is enclosed by arcaded walls with pavilions on three sides and a tall gateway on the fourth. Some of its stone was reused from an earlier tomb. It is frequently described as the last substantial monument in the Mughal imperial style. The Archaeological Survey of India maintains the site and charges admission.
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