Fatehpur Sikri
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Fatehpur Sikri is the city Akbar built on a ridge west of Agra in 1571 and made the Mughal capital, then left fourteen years later; its palaces and mosque of red sandstone still stand almost whole. I stopped there on the evening of September 20, 2022, on the way from Agra to Jaipur. I came in along a road of stalls, with monkeys on the rooftops, then walked through the palace, past the Anup Talao, the pool where Akbar’s court musician Tansen is said to have sung, and ended as the light went in the courtyard of the great mosque, under the Buland Darwaza, the gate Akbar built for his conquest of Gujarat.
Photos from Fatehpur Sikri
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The Buland Darwaza, the Gate of Magnificence, from inside the courtyard of the Jama Masjid.
Stone carved like wood, in the palace.
The road into Fatehpur Sikri, with monkeys on the rooftops.