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Jantar Mantar
Sansad Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110001 Phone: 011 2336 5358 Average Price: US$ 0 per personAbout
The Jantar Mantar is located in the modern city of New Delhi. It consists of 13 architectural astronomy instruments. The site is one of five built by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur, from 1724 onwards, as he was given by Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah the task of revising the calendar and astronomical tables. There is a plaque fixed on one of the structures in the Jantar Mantar observatory in New Delhi that was placed there in 1910 mistakenly dating the construction of the complex to the year 1710. The primary purpose of the observatory was to compile astronomical tables, and to predict the times and movements of the sun, moon and planets.
