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{{Infobox historic site|name=Red Fort|image=Delhi fort.jpg|image_size=|caption=A view of the Red Fort's Lahori Gate|designation1=WHS|designation1_offname=Red Fort Complex|designation1_date=[[List of World Heritage Sites by year of inscription#2010 (31st session)|2007]] <small>(31st [[World Heritage Committee|session]])</small>|designation1_number=[https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/231rev 231rev]|designation1_criteria=ii, iii, vi|designation1_type=Cultural|designation1_free1name=Region|designation1_free1value=[[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia|Indo-Pacific]]|location=[[Old Delhi]], [[Delhi]], [[India]]|built=12 May
 1639 – {{start date and age|6 April 1648}}|architect=[[Ustad Ahmad Lahori]]|architecture=[[Indo-Islamic architecture]]|owner=*[[Mughal Empire]] (1648–1857)
*[[British Raj|Government of British India]] (1857–1947)
*[[Government of India]] (1947–present)|coordinates={{coord|28|39|21|N|77|14|27|E|display=inline,title}}|locmapin=India New Delhi|map_caption=Location in [[Delhi]], [[India]], Asia|height={{cvt|18|-|33|m}}|built_for=[[Mughal Empire]]|native_name=लाल क़िला|native_language=hi}}

The '''Red Fort''' (Lal Qila) is a monument built in 1648 that rises {{convert|33|meters}} above [[Old Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.delhitourism.gov.in/delhitourism/tourist_place/red_fort.jsp |title=Red Fort |publisher=Delhi Tourism |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-date=16 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616110313/http://www.delhitourism.gov.in/delhitourism/tourist_place/red_fort.jsp |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was built by the [[Mughal]] Emperor [[Shah Jahan]]. The fort is located in the centre of [[Delhi]], [[India]].<ref name=UNESCO>{{cite web |url=http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/231 |title=Red Fort Complex |publisher=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> It is made of red [[stone]] and [[marble]]. It was built on the right bank of the [[Yamuna|Yamuna River]]. 

The Red Fort was originally referred to as "Qila-i-Mubarak" (the blessed fort), because it was the residence of the [[royal family]]. The [[layout|layout]] of the Red Fort was organised to keep and [[integrate|integrate]] this site with the [[Salimgarh Fort]]. The [[planning]] and [[aesthetics]] of the Red Fort represent the high point in Mughal [[creativity]] which happened during the reign of Emperor Shah Jahan. This Fort has had many additions after its [[construction]] by Emperor Shah Jahan. It is a [[World Heritage Site]].<ref name=UNESCO/> it is made out of red sandstone.

== Red Fort Media ==
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File:'Jujhar Singh Bundela Kneels in Submission to Shah Jahan', painted by Bichitr, c. 1630, Chester Beatty Library (cropped2).jpg|[[Mughal Emperor]] [[Shah Jahan]], c. 1630

File:Red Fort as seen from Jama Masjid's tower.jpg|The Red Fort walls in the background, viewed from the top of [[Jama Masjid, Delhi|Jama Masjid]]'s tower

File:PM Nehru addresses the nation from the Red Fort on 15 August 1947.jpg|Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru|Nehru]] hoisting the tricolour on 15 August 1947, marking India's first Independence Day

File:Ghulam Ali Khan 003b.jpg|View of the Red Fort from the river, c. 1852 (by [[Ghulam Ali Khan]])

File:Diwan-e-Khas-2022.jpg|Inner walls and ceiling of the [[Diwan-i-Khas (Red Fort)|''Diwan-e-Khas'']]

File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressing the Nation on the occasion of 76th Independence Day from the ramparts of Red Fort, in Delhi on August 15, 2022 (6).jpg|Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi|Modi]] delivers an address on August 15, 2022

File:Covered market past the Lahore gate entrance in Red Fort.jpg|The barrel-vaulted structure located just beyond the Lahore Gate served as a market and was originally constructed to cater to the needs of high-ranking Mughal women residing within the fort

File:Red Fort, New Delhi Inside Map.jpg|Plaque highlighting Red Fort's layout

File:Red Fort in Delhi 03-2016 img1.jpg|The [[Delhi Gate (Red Fort)|Delhi Gate]], which is almost identical in appearance to the [[Lahori Gate (Red Fort)|Lahori Gate]]

File:Naubat Khana Red Fort 1857.jpg|''[[Naubat Khana (Red Fort)|Naubat Khana]]'' and the courtyard before its demolition by the British, in an 1858 photograph
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