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Corner Minarets 		Golconda - Abdullah Qutb Shah

Abandoned Mosque

Abdullah Qutb Shah

This mausoleum, just outside the necropolis, is the last royal tomb to be built in the grand pyramidal style seen first in the tomb of Muhammad Qutb Shah. Raised on a wide platform, the central cenotaph chamber is surrounded by a spacious arcaded gallery with seven openings on each side. This arcade has a battlemented parapet with complex corner finials. The upper storey has five arched recesses on each side with elaborate plaster decoration and multicoloured tilework in the spandrels. The high parapet of this storey has rectangular screens, trefoil crenellations, and corner and intermediate finials. The dome, now almost spherical, has a double layer of petals at the base.

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