The Tomb of I’timad-ud-Daulah, a white marble edifice built between 1622 and 1628 by order of Empress Nur Jahan, is one of the few surviving buildings from among what was once a series of 44 Mughal-era riverfront gardens along the River Yamuna in Agra. The structure is notable as the earliest example of a predominantly white marble construction in the Mughal period, representative of a transition out of the red sandstone phase of Mughal architecture and predating its more famous counterpart, the Taj Mahal.