history of architecture of firaz minar gaur

The history that belong to the firaz Minar

1. FIRIZ MINAR
Gaur, West Bengal

3. Old imagery

6. FIROZ MINAR GAUR, WEST BENGAL
•1485-1489
•Tughlaqistyle
•5 floor plans
•Dodegonalstyle -3floors
•Circular style remaining 2 floors
•Total 5 floors
•Sultan saifuddinFirozShah ,, habshidynasty
•Resembles qutabminar
•26 m high and 19 m in circumference
•Masonry plinth
•Built by bricks

7. •In his book The Ruins of GourHenry Creighton, one of the first
among a series of early English explorers to the site describes
Gaur as ‘an uninhabited waste’, ‘concealed in deep jungle, and
situated in one of the least civilized districts of the Bengal
Presidency’.1 Describing the ruins in hyperbolic rhetoric,
Creighton writes