As clear as it is from the name of the monument, it is a place where the main tomb of The Great Emperor; Humayun, encompassed. It is built by Humayun’s first wife Empress Bega Begum, who was also known as Haji Begum in late sixteenth century in Delhi, India. The architects were persian and chosen by herself; Mirak Mirza Ghiyas and his son Sayyid Muhammad.

The Humayun’s tomb became the first tomb with a garden on the entire Indian subcontinent and was declared as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1933. The tomb also includes many other monuments encompassing the tombs of Bega Begum herself, Hamida Begum and other many relevant successing Mughals. The other monuments that surrounds the Humayun’s Tomb are Tomb and Mosque of Isa Khan, Bu Halima’s Tomb and Garden, Afsarwala Tomb and Mosque, Arab Sarai, Nila Gumbad, Chillah Nizamuddin Aulia and Barber’s Tomb. This presence of such amount of monuments for different purpose shows the richness of the historical background of the Humayun’s Tomb.

The architecture is purely Islamic styled designed by Persian and Mughals. The north Indian states ruled through many cultures and showing a green light to the Indo-Islamic architecture. The mixture of the prevailing and the new style gave rise to the employment of arcuate style of construction. Mughal patronage included the Indian architecture with the Islamic and gave a decorative balconies, kiosks and developed a distinct Mughal Architecture Style, given as a legacy for around 400 years. The combination of red sandstone and white marble makes it worth visiting. It also has a double layered dome and char bagh garden, structure defined as the Paradise Garden according to Islam.