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Its beauty lies in its tiled dome, rare in Delhi. Situated behind Humayun’s Tomb, Nila Gumbad, or blue dome, was on the banks of Yamuna, the course of which shifted down the centuries. Now it faces the platform number one of Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station. Built-in 1625 by Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khana, a noble in Akbar’s court, the Gumbad is Delhi’s oldest Mughal-era ruin. Though it is the tomb of Khan-i-Khana’s attendant Fahim Khan, The Delhi Walla saw no grave inside. A single-structure monument, the visitor has to concentrate only on a few essentials. The building – standing on a 32.9 sq. m platform – is shaped like an octagon from outside and is a square within. The dome retains most of its original blue tiles. The wall facing the south too has to hold on to most of its blue, green and
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