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1) Qutub Minar which means pole in Arabic is the tallest single tower (73 metres) in New Delhi, India.
2) Qutub Minar is the historical monument of India, named after famous Islamic emperor Qutab-Ud-Din-Aibak.
3) Qutub Minar structure is the tower of five storeys with 14.3 m base diameter which gets reduced to 2.7 m at top.
4) Qutub Minar is built using red sandstone and marbles.
5) Qutub Minar comprises of spiral staircase with 379 steps.
6) Qutub Minar is located at Mehrauli area of Delhi, India.
7) Qutub Minar has been listed to the UNESCO World heritage site.
8) Qutub Minar was built in order to celebrate the victory of Mohammed Ghori over Rajputs.
9) Qutub Minar is surrounded by green garden and Qutub complex is a collection of monuments.
10) Qutub Minar is major source of attraction for the tourists around the world.
11) Qutub Minar is built on the pattern of Indo-Islamic architecture similar to ‘Minaret of Jam’ in Afghanistan.
12) Qutub Minar opens every day of the week from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm and has decorative light show in the evening.
13) Qutub Minar is surrounded by famous architectures like Alai-Darwaza, Tomb of Iltutmish, two mosques etc.
14) Qutub Minar had been damaged in 1369 because of lightening strike.
15) The damaged part of Qutub Minar was rebuilt by Firoj Shah Tughlaq.
16) The Qutub Minar is slightly tilted towards one side due to many renovations which were done over a period of time.
17) The walls of Qutub Minar have the inscriptions written in Urdu and are considered to be taken from verses of Holy Quran.
18) It took almost around 75 years to build Qutub Minar and was started by Aibak in 1192 and finished by IItutmish.
19) Qutub Minar Festival is celebrated every year in the month of November and December.
20) The Minar has been affected by earthquakes in past and has undergone major reconstruction process in the year 1505.
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