{"id":204,"date":"2022-05-10T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T09:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2022-05-10T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T09:43:02","slug":"qutub-minar-new-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/qutub-minar-new-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Qutub Minar (New Delhi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Qutub Minar<\/a>, also spelled as Qutb Minar and Qutab Minar, is a minaret and <strong>&#8220;victory tower&#8221;<\/strong> that forms part of the Qutb complex, which lies at the site of Delhi\u2019s oldest fortified city, Lal Kot, founded by the Tomar Rajputs. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mehrauli area of South Delhi, India. It is one of the most visited tourist spots in the city, mostly built between 1199 and 1220.<\/p>\n<p>It can be compared to the 62-metre all-brick Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, of c. 1190, which was constructed a decade or so before the probable start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Delhi<\/a> tower. The surfaces of both are elaborately decorated with inscriptions and geometric patterns. The Qutb Minar has a shaft that is fluted with &#8220;superb stalactite bracketing under the balconies&#8221; at the top of each stage. In general, minarets were slow to be used in India and are often detached from the main mosque where they exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Qutub Minar, also spelled as Qutb Minar and Qutab Minar, is a minaret and &#8220;victory tower&#8221; that forms part of the Qutb complex, which lies at the site of Delhi\u2019s oldest fortified city, Lal Kot, founded by the Tomar Rajputs. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mehrauli area of South Delhi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delhi-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}