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Located in Mehrauli.
Qutab Minar is among the tallest and most famous towers in the
world.
The minaret is 234 feet high and the highest individual tower in the world.
It has a number of floors or storeys which has beautiful carvings.
There are inscriptions all round the tower and these inscriptions
reveal that Iltutmish finished the tower.
Only the first storey was built by Qutub-ud-din. The other storeys were built by Iltutmish and two storeys in white marbles were built in by Firoz–Shah Tuglak.
Built to celebrate the victory of Muhammad Ghori over the Rajputs in 1192.
Qutab Minar was built not just as a victory tower but also as a symbol of Islamic justice and of the military might of the Slave Dynasty.
Qutub Minar is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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