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Firoz Minar

India

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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Firoz Minar (also known as Firuz Minar) (English: Tower of Firoz/Firuz) is a five-storeyed tower situated at Gaur, West Bengal, India. It was built by Sultan Saifuddin Firuz Shah of the Habshi dynasty between 1485 and 1489. It was built in the Tughlaqi style of architecture. Although the first three storeys are dodecagonal, the final two are circular in shape.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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