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Jantar Mantar

Observatory · Ward 138 ·

Jantar Mantar

Observatory · Ward 138 ·

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"Janta Mantar, a Jaipur park for the space-and-time-inclined, wasbuilt in the early 1700s by the Maharaja Singh.The UNESCO World Heritage site, located in the old city, contains20 large stone astronomical instrumentsdesigned to assist scientists who wereobserving the heavens with their bare eyes. The huge tools monitorcelestial happenings and are still in used today for agricultural predictions. One can walk between the impressive apparatuses and imagine the 18th-century scientists of the royal court plotting and charting impossible distances and paths."

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UNESCO site with 19 stone astronomical instruments, world's largest sundial

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stone instruments

scientific wonder

timekeeping

samrat yantra

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Malve Nagar, J.D.A. Market, Pink City, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302002, India Get directions

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UNESCO site with 19 stone astronomical instruments, world's largest sundial

astronomical observatory

unesco world heritage site

astronomy

historical site

stone instruments

scientific wonder

timekeeping

samrat yantra

Featured in Afar

Malve Nagar, J.D.A. Market, Pink City, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302002, India Get directions

Wheelchair accessible entrance

Wheelchair accessible parking lot

Jantar Mantar by null

Jantar Mantar by jward628 (Atlas Obscura User)

Jantar Mantar by jward628 (Atlas Obscura User)

Jantar Mantar by Avinash Bhat / CC BY-SA 2.0

Jantar Mantar by Russ Bowling/CC BY 2.0 (Flickr Creative Commons)

Jantar Mantar by nicolab (Atlas Obscura User)

Jantar Mantar by nicolab (Atlas Obscura User)

Jantar Mantar by jward628 (Atlas Obscura User)

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