Qutub Minar

Location: Mehrauli
Near Metro Station ,
Qutab Minar Delhi
Timings: April to September 9:00 Am to 7:00 Pm.
October to March 9:00Am to 6:00 Pm
Entry Fee: 30 (Indians), 500 (foreigners)
Days Closed: None
Photography Charges:-zero
cameras : allowed .

Qutub Minar, a tower, a tower 73 meters tall, Punjab, India, the world's tallest tower Burj Fateh's and India's second-highest tower, in brick. The tower immediately after the defeat of Delhi's last Hindu kingdom it is  made by  Qutub ud Din .
Tower five different floors, each has been marked by a projecting balcony and just 2.5 meters by 15 meters in diameter at the top tapers. The first three storeys are made of red sandstone; The fourth and fifth storeys are of marble and sandstone. At the foot of the tower Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, the first mosque to be built in India.
An inscription on its eastern gate provocatively informs that '27 Hindu temples' was made  with material from demolition. A 7 m high iron pillar stands in the courtyard of the mosque. It is said that if you can encircle it with your hands to your wishes with your back while standing will be completed.The origins of Qutab Minar are shrouded in controversy. Some believe that the beginning of the Muslim rule in India shows a tower of victory as it was erected. Others muezzins calling the faithful to prayer from a minaret as the service call.
In the development of architectural styles from Aibak to Tughlaq tower is quite clear. Relief work and even the material used for manufacturing different. Qutub Minar is 238 feet by 47 feet to nine feet at the top and tapers. Tower by bands of inscriptions and four projecting balconies supported by elaborately decorated brackets is embellished with.Even though in ruins, Quwwat Ui Islam (Light of Islam) mosque in Qutub Complex is one of the world's most magnificent structures. Qutb-ud-din Aibak began its construction in 1193 and the mosque was completed in 1197.this is a iron pillar .
In lltutmush in 1230 and 1315 in  Alla-ud-din khilji  be  added to the building
The main mosque an inner and outer courtyard, decorated with the shaft and are surrounded by Piller. Most of these shafts 27 Hindu temples, which were plundered for building the mosque are. So it is not surprising that the Muslim mosque is typical Hindu ornamentation.