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| Keywords: Old GolGumbaz 1890.jpg Photographer; Hinton Henry Medium; Photographic print Year 1860 Photographer's Caption built on a terrace 200 yards square Height of tomb externally 198 ft internally 175 Diameter of dome 124 feet 4 minarets of 8 storeys 12 ft broad entered by winding staircases terminating in cupolas' Print 1 of Henry Hinton's The Ruins of Beejapoor in a series of nineteen views from collodion negatives Bombay 1860 The Gol Gumbaz a grand mausoleum of Muhammad Adil Shah though a structural triumph of Deccan architecture is impressively simple in design with a hemispherical dome nearly 44 mts in external diameter resting on a cubical volume measuring 47 5 mts on each side The dome is supported internally by eight intersecting arches created by two rotated squares that create interlocking pendentives A centotaph slab in the floor marks the true grave in the basement the only instance of this practice in Adil Shahi architecture http //en wikipedia org/wiki/File Old_GolGumbaz_1890 jpg 2006-02-08 Saithilace PD-old Gol Gumbaz 1890 in Karnataka Historical images of Bijapur | ||||
