Indian Education Ministry officials recently announced that concurrently with the process of renovating the Iranian gardens at the Qutub Shahi Tomb Complex, a new Iranian garden will also be constructed.
India is one of ten countries coordinating with Iran to pursue the issue of registering Noruz on the UNESCO List of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
The Qutub Shahi Tomb Complex is remarkable in design. The complex served as a family burial ground where relatives could visit, pay their respects to the departed, listen to the recitation of the Holy Quran, and distribute food and alms to the poor in memory of their loved ones.
Many of the tombs are raised above ground level and set up on a huge platform of arches. The square tomb buildings are coated with plaster, fringed with small minarets like flower vases, each supporting an enormous dome that springs out of a necklace of lotus petal design, a plan that became the hallmark of the Qutub Shahi architecture of the Deccan.
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