Fatehpur Sikri is a city situated 26 miles west of Agra in Uttar Pradesh (India). It was built under the orders of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar. This magnificen city is on Sikri ridge. Akbar ordered construction of building in 1571 in honour of saint Shaikh Salim Chisti. Most of the works were finished within a year. Then a well planned administrative, residential and religious buildings came into existence in the next few years. The Jami Mosque was oldest of the structures here. According to its epigraph, the date of its completion of this Mosque was AH 979 (AD 1571-72). The Buland-Darwaza was added some five years later. Among other important buildings are the tomb of Shaikh Salim Chishti, Naubat or Naqqar Khana (drum-house), Taksal (mint), Karkhanas (royal workshop), Khazana (treasury), Hakim's quarters, Diwan-i-Am (hall of public audience), house of Maryam also called Sunahra Makan (Golden House), palace of Jodha Bai, Birbal's house, etc.