Popular Sites and Monuments of India

Here we have listed few popular monuments and sites of India from which 1 or 2 questions in various competitive exams will be expected.

Name	Location	Famous for
Ajanta Caves	Aurganbad	Buddhist care temples
Amaranth ‘s Caves	Kashmir	Naturally formed ice shivlinga
Anand Bhawan	Allahabad	Nehru family’s ancestral hose
Vaishno Devi	Jammu and Kashmir	One of Hinduism’s holiest sites
Buland Darwaza	Fatehpur sikri	The highest and biggest gateway of India near Agra built by Akbar to commemorate his victorious campaign in Deccan
Char Minar	Hyderabad	Built in 1591 CE, it is a monument , a mosque and a global icon.
Dilwara Temples	Mount Abu	Jain temples, Vimal Vasahi , mahavir swami , built between 11^thand 13^th century AD.
Lotus Temple	Delhi	Temple with a flower like design
Taj mahal	Agra	Iconic domed mughal mausoleum
Gandhi Sadan	Delhi	Birla house – where Gandhiji was assassinated in 1948
Gateway of India	Mumbai	Erected in 1911 on king George V’s to India
Gol Gumbaz	Bijapur	Largest dome in India
Gomateshwara	Mysore	2000 year –old statue of a jain sage carved out of a single stone
Golden Temple	Amritsar	Sikh pilgrimage
Hawa Mahal	Jaipur	A pink castle of air
Jallianwala Bagh	Amritsar	A public garden infamous for the massacre of hundreds of innocent Indians by the british on 13 April, 1919
Jantar mantar	Delhi	Observatory built in 1724 during the days of Maharaja jai Singh II of Ajmer
Jama masjid	Delhi	Biggest mosque built by Shah Jahan
Kanya kumari	Tamil Nadu	Temple of the virgin goddess situated on the extreme southern tip of India
Kranti maidan	Mumbai	Historical avenue where Gandhiji gave the call ‘Quit India ‘ in 1942
Harmandir sahib	Amritsar	Gilded temple & sikh pilgrimage site
Meenakshi temple	Madurai	Hindu temple
Qutab Minar	Delhi	Largest minaret
Rajghat	Delhi	Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi on the bank of the Yamuna
Red fort	Delhi	A red stone structure built by Shah jahan on the bank of the Yamuna
Sabarmati	Ahemdabad	Harijan ashram founded here by Gandhiji
Sarnath	Varanasi	Centre of Buddhist pilgrimage , the place
Shakitisthal	Delhi	Situated on the bank of the Yamuna where Mrs Indira Gandhi was cremated
Shantivan	Delhi	Samadhi of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Shantiniketan	Kolkata	Famous Visva –Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore
Sanchi	Madhya pradesh	Ancient Buddhist monuments
Victoria Memorial	Kolkata	Famous museum
Vijay Ghat	Delhi	Samadhi of Lal Bahadur shastri
Vir bhumi	Delhi	Samadhi of Rajiv Gandhi