When Akbar died he had moved his court to Agra and it was near there that he was buried and his mausoleum built at Sikandra. It is set among beautiful gardens and you enter through and impressive gate inscribed in Arabic "These are the gardens of Eden, enter them and live for ever". The building is of sandstone with marble and semiprecious stone inlay. There is coloured tiling to the ouside but of the simplest pattern and the inside vestible has elaborate pattern which in Granada , Fez or Istanbul would be tiled but is handpainted here. Akbars tomb itself is austere. The gardens follow the four rivers of eden pattern standard in persian/islamic gardens but have that elongation along one axis pefected by the moghuls. It is 17C and completed by his son Jehangir Khan.
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