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Close-up of the 5th Storey Tower

The Mehrauli Archaelogical Park boasts a World Heritage monument, ie the soaring Quwwatual Islam mosque with its tower built by Sultan Qutbuddin Aibak in AD 1196 to celebrate the invincibility of Islam. Although modelled as a classical tower from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayers, the Qutb Minar was a symbolic rather than a functional structure. Qutb in Arabic means pole or axis.

The Minar was a symbol of the military might of the Turko-Afgan Slave dynasty - so called because its earliest kings were all slaves of their predecessors- and the qutb or axis of Islamic dominion. An inscription on the tower says that it was erected by Qutbuddin, literally Staff of God, to 'cast the shadow of God over both East and West'.

The circular tower with its pronounced taper that increases the illusion of height, has a base diameter of 14.3 meters in diameter. [edit text] [editors]

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