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    The Qutb Minar is a 73-meter tall minaret located in Delhi, India that is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Qutb complex. It has five stories and tapers from a base diameter of 14.3 meters to 2.7 meters at the top. The minaret contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps. It has been damaged by earthquakes and lightning over time and received repairs by various rulers, with the top story added by Firuz Shah Tughlaq.

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    The Qutb Minar is a 73-meter tall minaret located in Delhi, India that is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Qutb complex. It has five stories and tapers from a base diameter of 14.3 meters to 2.7 meters at the top. The minaret contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps. It has been damaged by earthquakes and lightning over time and received repairs by various rulers, with the top story added by Firuz Shah Tughlaq.

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    The Qutb Minar is a 73-meter tall minaret located in Delhi, India that is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Qutb complex. It has five stories and tapers from a base diameter of 14.3 meters to 2.7 meters at the top. The minaret contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps. It has been damaged by earthquakes and lightning over time and received repairs by various rulers, with the top story added by Firuz Shah Tughlaq.

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    The Qutb Minar is a 73-meter tall minaret located in Delhi, India that is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Qutb complex. It has five stories and tapers from a base diameter of 14.3 meters to 2.7 meters at the top. The minaret contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps. It has been damaged by earthquakes and lightning over time and received repairs by various rulers, with the top story added by Firuz Shah Tughlaq.

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    The Qutb Minar, also spelled as Qutab Minar or Qutub Minar, is a minaret that forms part of the Qutb

    complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mehrauli area of Delhi, India.[1][2]

    Qutb Minar is a 73-metre (239.5 feet) tall tapering tower of five storeys, with a 14.3 metres (47 feet) base
    diameter, reducing to 2.7 metres (9 feet) at the top of the peak.[3] It contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps.[4] [5]
    The Minar is surrounded by several historically significant monuments of Qutb complex. The nearby
    pillared cupola known as "Smith's Folly" is a remnant of the tower's 19th century restoration, which included an
    ill-advised attempt to add some more stories.

    Kuttull Minor, Delhi. The Qutb Minar, 1805

    Qutb Minar in Mehrauli in Delhi. Clifton and Co., around 1890

    Qutub Minar

    The minar's topmost storey was damaged by lightning in 1369 and was rebuilt by Firuz Shah Tughlaq, who
    [6] [7]

    added another storey. In 1505, an earthquake damaged Qutub Minar; it was repaired by Sikander Lodi. On 1
    September 1803, a major earthquake caused serious damage. Major Robert Smith of the British Indian Army
    renovated the tower in 1828 and installed a pillared cupola over the fifth storey, thus creating a sixth. The
    cupola was taken down in 1848, under instructions from The Viscount Hardinge, then Governor General of
    India. It was reinstalled at ground level to the east of Qutb Minar, where it remains. It is known as
    "Smith's Folly".[8]

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