Fatehpur Sikri

Washing down the courtyard of the Friday Mosque at Fatehpur Sikri. The white marble building is Sheikh Salim Chishti’s mausoleum. Fatehpur Sikri, 'City of Victory', was built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in fifteen years from about 1569, but abandoned by 1584. The style is Indo-Islamic — a fusion of native Indian and imported Islamic. This triumphal gateway was built in 1573 and commemorates Akbar's victory over Gujarat..