Anguri Bagh

The large courtyard housed in front of the Khas Mahal is known as the Anguri Bagh. This is beautifully surrounded by red sandstone arcades on its three sides. Anguri Bagh of Agra was the special place for royal ladies or the main square of the zenana apartment. This structure of Agra was built by Shah Jahan in 1663. It is situated at Agra, the city of Mughal and is about 200 km away from the capital city of India. It took its name as Anguri Bagh after the grape vines, which was present in this place many decades back.

It was designed to be the paradise for royal ladies ensuring their complete privacy and luxury with majestic bathhouses, the Hammmams designed with exquisite wall painting coloured in royal blue and gold located at the northeast side of Anguri Bagh. The main square of the zenenna apartment or the living area has a marble paved platform with a fountain in its centre. The garden itself was divided into multiple labyrinthine geometrically shaped compartments. It has a splendid pool with scalloped edges, a parterre and a marble cascade. The Anguri Bagh of Agra is the example of one of the very typical specimens of the old Mughal gardens, laid out in geometrical flower-beds with four terraced walks radiating from the central platform and fountain. They were occupied in the Mutiny days by few British officers and their families who were trapped in the Fort. Clearance of the wire-netting fern houses and bedraggled shrubs which deformed the quadrangle of the garden and many more renovations were done by Lord Curzon.