Thursday 31 January 2013

FIROZ SHAH KOTLA

TEACHERS WALK THE GROUND OF FIROZ SHAH KOTLA
24th November 2012 

The teachers went on the heritage walk with SRDC to FIROZ SHAH KOTLA on the 24 November 2012 .The teachers learnt many facts about this monument.
The Feroz Shah Kotla  or Kotla  was a fortress built by Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq to house his version of Delhi city called Ferozabad. A pristine polished sandstone pillar from the 3rd century B.C. rises from the palace's crumbling remains, one of many pillars left by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka; it was moved from Ambala, Punjab (currently in Haryana) and re-erected in its current location in 1356.Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate on the banks of Yamuna river, the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla,