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a building complex to house salim chisti's tomb
mighty gate bees

The official buildings and residences of Fatehpur Sikri are all largely part of one building complex. Right next to it, is another huge complex which houses the tomb of Saint Salim Chisti, who predicted that the childless Akbar would soon have a son. Akbar built this complex with its accompanying mosque in Salim Chisti's honor.

At one end of the complex is a huge gate known as the "mighty gate". We went through this gate and as I looked up at the arch, I saw these large black clumps. They're enormous bee hives.