Barakhamba Monument, Nizamuddin

Barakhamba, meaning twelve pillars, is a 14th-century Tughlaq-period tomb in the Nizamuddin heritage area of New Delhi, attributed to Muhammad bin Tughluq. It stands in an open park at the entrance road to Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine, opposite the 7th hole of the Delhi Golf Club, on the main road from the Sabz Burj circle to Humayun's Tomb, where it is easy to see and reach.

The square building has twelve pillars with three arched openings on each face, and a verandah around the central chamber with domed rooms at each corner. It may first have been planned as a Chausath Khamba. For years squatters occupied it and paan stains and graffiti marred the walls; the squatters were removed and the ASI cleaned the surfaces with a multani mitti paste before structural conservation, as one of 46 Delhi monuments chosen for restoration. Behind it lie the ruins of the red sandstone Lal Mahal of Balban's time, and the tiled Sabz Burj stands at the circle facing its gate.