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About 6 kms from city middle, lies the Makai Gate also called "Makai Darwaza". Aurangabad is likewise bestowed with the call, "City of Gates". The Makai gate, is one of the 4 gates of Fortification partitions ofAurangabad city, out of which, each face a cardinal course, specifically, Delhi gate demarcating the North, with the Jalna gate and Paithan gate guarding the East and South respectively. The Makai gate barricades the West. This gate turned into erected in approximately 1682 AD with the aid of General Khan Bahadur beneath Auranzeb's rule.

This gate designed in an elaborate Mughal Architectural style, served two foremost functions: protection from invasion of the Marathas, and to mark the Direction of Mecca, that is of large religious price to Muslims. With a simplistic color scheme echoing through all of the gates, Mecca Gate affords itself to the onlooker within the color of the cloth utilized in its production topped with white painted across the battlements and the 2 iconic "chattri"s abutting the large structure of the gates, planted over the bastions. Makai gate is like a peek a ways returned into the beyond, in the Mughal duration along side innumerable legends the locals have related to it. The avenue passing thru the main gate leads the way towards Bibi ka Maqbara.

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