Mubarak Mahal
The main
entrance leads into a large
courtyard at the centre of which is
the Mubarak Mahal, faced in white
marble. Built in 1890, originally as
a
guest house for the Maharaja, the
Mubarak Mahal is a small but
immaculately conceived two-storeyed
building, designed on the same
cosmological plan in miniature as
the city itself- a square divided
into a 3x3 square grid. Tillotson
describes the cantilevered
balconies, the roof parapet, the
pierced balustrade and the open
arcade of the upper gallery - "The
open space above each arch in the
gallery., make the building's roof
appear to float weightlessly above
it. The lightness and the depth are
typically Rajput features".
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