{"id":221959,"date":"2023-01-11T19:11:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221959"},"modified":"2023-01-11T19:11:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:41:51","slug":"u-s-ambassadors-fund-to-help-restore-paigah-tombs-complex-in-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-ambassadors-fund-to-help-restore-paigah-tombs-complex-in-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Ambassadors fund to help restore Paigah Tombs complex in Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span>e<b> \u201cU.S. Ambassadors fund to help restore<\/b> <b>Paigah Tombs complex in Hyderabad\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>11th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation will extend financial support of $250,000 towards the conservation and restoration of six of the Paigah tombs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Paigah Tombs?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paigah Tombs or Maqhbara Shams al-Umara are a necropolis<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">located in Hyderabad, Telangana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were built in the 18th and 19th centuries and belonged <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the nobility of the Paigah family who served the Nizam of Hyderabad in various capacities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Architecture:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These tombs are made out of lime and mortar with beautiful inlaid marble carvings. It consists of marvelous carvings and motifs in floral designs and inlaid marble tile works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The tombs are the finest examples of the enthralling Indo-Islamic architecture, which is a blend of both features of Asaf Jahi and Rajputana style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Stucco work found in Paigah Tombs doesn\u2019t exist anywhere else in India. It has incredible lattice screens, minarets and detailing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cU.S. Ambassadors fund to help restore Paigah Tombs complex in Hyderabad\u201d published in The Hindu on 11th January 2023 What is the News? The US Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation will extend financial support of $250,000 towards the conservation and restoration of six of the Paigah tombs.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-ambassadors-fund-to-help-restore-paigah-tombs-complex-in-hyderabad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Ambassadors fund to help restore Paigah Tombs complex in Hyderabad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-221959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}