This 800 year old tower is the tallest--and oldest?--minaret in India.
It is the first example of Muslim architecture within India and, therefore, has some unique qualities.
The builders making the mosque complex had never themselves seen an arch, only had it described to them. So they did not understand the concept of a keystone for support. Instead they just made the stones the shape they were told to make.
No keystone, yet here stand the arches all these years later.
Hm.
Lots of history hangs out there.
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