Maze of the Week #67 - Taj Mahal Maze

My most popular mazes from 2022 were famous buildings from around the world. It inspired me to look for more buildings to maze like Maze of the Week #67, the Taj Mahal. Certainly this is a building that most of the world has heard of ! Completed in 1648, it is still an amazing structure located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Check out this video showing the grounds and inside !

Photo: flickr, Christopher John SSF

Taj Mahal

Maze explanation: To add more detail to the structure I made this a poster sized maze. The size is 43 x 28 and it is difficult to solve printed on small pieces of paper. Also, because of the detail I had to work around a lot of things to create the maze - so I created 2 ! The main maze is from tower to tower, with a bonus maze in the central dome.

Taj Mahal Maze explanation

Taj Mahal Maze explanation

And the maze: Huge and black and white

Taj Mahal Mazes in black and white

Taj Mahal Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Maze download is available on the site. A also did a case study on improving the maze.

Case Study#9 - Improving a Maze - Taj Mahal

Coming next week:

A sign maze

Maze of the Week #66 - Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Maze

Maze of the week #66 is of a memorial located in Amritsar, Punjab, India. It is the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial which sits on the location of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919. Here is a video without audio showing a walkthrough to the memorial.

Photo: flickr, P.L. Tandon

Jallianwala Bagh Memorial

Jallianwala Bagh Memorial

The Maze: A simple full color maze.

Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Maze

Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Free maze download is available on the site.

Coming next week:

The most famous building in India

Maze of the Week #56 - Matrimandir at Auroville Maze

Maze of the week #56 takes us to the other side of India, in Auroville, Tamil Nadu and features the Matrimandir building. It took almost 40 years to be built and was completed in 2008. It is the main building in the complex for Integral Yoga practitioners. It features a dome covered in golden colored discs. You can read more about it on the Wikipedia Page.

Check out a video of the building from the visitor center YouTube page:

A Photo of the Building:

The original uploader was Santoshnc at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons

The Maze: I found the colors difficult to match but went with a full color version to highlight the golden discs. In different lights the discs take on different shades.

The Matrimandir at Auroville Maze

Matrimandir at Auroville Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Download is available on the homepage. Check out videos of the maze being made on my new YouTube Channel.

Coming next week:

A famous map.

Maze of the Week #55 - Lotus Temple Maze

Maze of the week #55 takes us to Delhi, India for the Lotus Temple Maze. I like to make mazes of great architecture and this qualifies as just that. What a unique building. It opened in 1986 and was designed by Fariborz Sahba. You can read all the facts and figures about it on the Wikipedia page.

Check out a video of the building that focuses on the Baha’i faith:

A Photo of the Building:

Kevin Doncaster, flickr

The Maze: I went with a black and white version but added in shadows to give it a more realistic look.

Lotus Temple Maze

Lotus Temple Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Download is available on the homepage. Watch the maze being made here on my new YouTube channel:

Coming next week:

Another famous building in India !