Standing alone in a narrow passage, I’m lost, wondering which of the dark mysterious paths in front of me would lead me to my destination. The voices are echoing around me, but I cannot see anyone. Behind me is a corridor that opens to a door that takes me to another corridor with a door. I look around me and see no one. I hear a familiar voice and my guide emerges out of a dark corner. For a moment, I realise that I was almost close to being lost in a labyrinth with 1,000 passages and 489 doorways that clone each other — the famous Bhool Bhulaiya of Lucknow’s Bara Imambara. Grander story If there is one monument in Lucknow that fills me with awe, it’s the Bara Imambara. But it’s the story behind it that leaves me even more speechless. We go back in time to the 18th century — 1784 to be precise — when the province of Awadh was ravaged by famine. The Nawab of Awadh, Asaf-ud-Daula, hit upon an idea to find employment for his starving populace, both the rich and the poor. That’s how the Bara Imambara was born. It was neither a mosque nor a mausoleum, but was meant to be a prayer hall where the Shia Muslim community could congregate for mourning during Muharram. …show more content…
While the labourers worked brick by brick every morning, building the monument, the elite would start their work in the night, tearing down the entire structure, razing it to the ground. The cycle continued for 11 years until the monument Asafi Imambara or Bara Imambara was completed. Over 20,000 people worked on this project, which was based on the design of a Delhi-based architect, Kifayatullah, who apparently won the project through a
According to the museum it took Farrow 15 months along with 2 assistances to create the “Bomb Mosque”. When I first saw the “Bomb Mosque” at first glance it 's a beautiful mosque with a golden dome however in
When she got there she starts walking were the arrows lead her. She walks into a dark and deem forest were vines lay other the forest .so, she keeps walking forward trying to see were the arrows are telling her to go. She goes toward a lake. When she gets there she sees a familiar face in there but she knows that
The farther he goes on his journey, the more he learns. On his journey, he feels the spirits all around him, behind his back, breathing on his neck. Never has he felt so alone. On his journey he found new things, and learned new things. He saw new things that nobody has seen before since he is in the banned place.
It took approximately 2,300,000 limestone blocks which weighed around 15 tons each in order to build the great pyramids. 84,000 workers worked for 80 days for 20 years to complete just one tomb. The tombs or the pyramids required great architects engineers craftsmen and artist. The ingenuity and the time it took was unimaginable but amazing showing the ability of man when minds are put together.
The trail did not seem like it was ever going to end it stretched out for mile and miles and then miles after that but she kept walking. Finally i saw house on the horizon so i knew i was almost there. I finally trudged the whole trail and i ran into a big house at the trails end. The house seemed to be
He feels his hands bruising, as he is slowly being led down a dark hall by two red cloaked, masked men. White lanterns hang above, giving the hall a dark fluorescent glow. The young man feels the heat from several flickering candles, warm his skin walking deeper down another corridor. Fully awake, the young man notices a metallic chain hanging toward the end of the room — which at one end bears a large sharp hook. The cloaked men, finally stop walking; arriving at a horrific mountain of human skulls.
As I said that the door opened, and light flooded into the dark room. My jaw dropped as I saw a huge poster behind me and it looked almost like animal cell. The man who opened the door said to me, “Come with me, now”. I started to walk with him down a series of windy roads that seemed to go on for miles, and there would be blobs of matter that would move through the pathways. After about a half an hour of walking, the smooth pathway turned into a
Its ever-changing walls, numerous dead ends and unspeakable horrors were starting to irritate me. But just a bit. Every now and then, the walls would rumble and quake at the might of an otherworldly roar; prompting me to tremble like a little girl in my pathetic excuse I call shoes. The Elders had sent me- no, thrown me into this hellhole, jabbering on and on about how this is teach me a lesson, that I never listen to instructions and this was the last
The Path Imagine a child waking up in the hospital with no recollection of how he ended up there. Alone in the room with no parents or nurses around he may instantly feel alone. Not even able to remember his name, he cries out for a nurse, but when a nurse does not appear he gets out of the hospital bed and goes to look for one on his own. In a confused state he approached a nurse in his gown.
The rest of the day was spent in solitary. That night I did manage to get what some would call sleep, but it was far from pleasant. At first, all I could see was a thick veil of darkness. Then I began hearing crying in the distance, like a lost soul adrift in the abyss of darkness. Then it cut off abruptly, only a suspended echo remaining.
What drives people to undertake a mission? Most of the time, people have some type of experience in their life that marked them in some way, so they want to make good decisions when it comes to protecting their families and friends ,mostly everyone wants to keep the people they care about safe, like Farah Ahmedi that lost her brothers and father ,and to keep herself and her mother safe, she had to reach freedom, or like Bilbo Baggins ,he took the choice of going on an unexpected journey for his friends, and Walt Masters ,he was able to risk his life so he didn't disappoint his dad. All these characters were doing the right thing to don't let their families or friends down. FARAH AHMEDI
Ever had a mental “fork in the road?” Of course you have. We all have those tough decisions to make at times. William Stafford’s “Traveling Through the Dark” is about one of those very instances. But there’s more to it than meets the eye.
Though the trail was long, the view was breathtaking. Every day, the sun rises beneath the peak, and the inflamed glow spreads all across the mountain. I volunteer down the path of McCarthy Street. I thought by registering, I could work off service hours, but at the same time, have a little fun; however, every day is just a continuous routine of doing this and that: cleaning dishes, the bathroom, and mopping the ground that is usually covered in fine mud prints.
As I crossed that threshold, the point of no return, which was really just a door, I grew to be more and more scared. Eventually we came to the room. It was just as I had imagined. A blank, plain white room, illuminated by only one fluorescent light.
Located atop a hillock, the city’s core consists of the red sandstone palace complex and the Jami Masjid within which lies the marble tomb of Sufi saint Salim Chisti, whom Akbar revered. The approach from the Agra Gate had houses of nobles on either side, a bazaar, a mint house, the royal kitchen and the house of the noble of kitchens, reflecting great planning. From here the palace complex begins with from the Diwan-i-Aam an open raised courtyard with trabeate corridors, just behind which is a structure named the Diwan-i-Khass. This red sandstone building has an interesting interior with a circular carved pillar with serpentine brackets at its centre supporting four walkways to each corner of the square room. Asher and Brown maintain that Akbar sat atop this pillar and heard disputes with the arrangement symbolizing ‘dominion over the four quarters’, yet S.A.A Rizvi holds this was actually a royal jewel house owing to the chambers within the pillar.