{"id":18332,"date":"2023-12-19T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18332"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:44:56","slug":"yogmaya-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/yogmaya-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Yogmaya Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Yogmaya Temple<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as the\u00a0Jogmaya Temple, is an ancient Hindu shrine situated in the heart of Mehrauli (Delhi), a few hundred meters away from the\u00a0famous Qutub Minar.<\/li>\n<li>It was built by a noble in the court of\u00a0Mughal Emperor Akbar II by the name of Lala Sidhu Mal between 1806 and 1837.<\/li>\n<li>The area was known as Yoginipura in ancient Jain texts and Prithviraj Chauhan himself was said to have patronised a Yogini temple here shortly before his city\u2019s destruction.<\/li>\n<li>It was a focal point of Akbar II\u2019s rule.<\/li>\n<li>The temple has a replica of the\u00a0Goddess Yogmaya, also called the \u201cPure Goddess,<\/li>\n<li>The most famous festival celebrated only in this temple is the \u2018Phoolwalon ki Sair.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Qutb-Minar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is in red and buff sandstone is the highest tower in India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Qutbu&#8217;d-Din Aibak laid the foundation of Minar in AD 1199 and raised the first storey, to which were added three more storeys by his successor and son-in-law,\u00a0Shamsu&#8217;d-Din Iltutmish (AD 1211-36).<\/li>\n<li>All the storeys are surrounded by a projected balcony encircling the minar and supported by stone brackets, which are decorated with honey-comb design, more conspicuously in the first storey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Sandstone?<\/h3>\n<p>Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mostly of quartz sand, but it can also contain significant amounts of feldspar, and sometimes silt and clay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/delhi\/in-mehrauli-a-mughal-sponsored-temple-is-a-testament-to-delhis-syncretic-roots-9072258\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>In Mehrauli, a Mughal-sponsored temple is a testament to Delhi\u2019s syncretic roots<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yogmaya Temple is an ancient Hindu shrine situated in the heart of Mehrauli (Delhi), a few hundred meters away from the famous Qutub Minar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}