Known as 'Barahdari' as it has twelve doorways, this
single-storeyed red sandstone building is rectangular in shape with
three doorways on each side. The arched doorways grace its northern and
southern sides while the eastern and western sides have flat-roofed
doorways. Though, people believe that Tansen, one of the Nine Gems of
Akbar's court who was a famous musician lived here, the idea seems to be
too absurd to be true. Not only the building is too small for a
nobleman's house with only a single oblong hall, it has no attachments
that are a must in a residential house such as hammams or baths, toilets
or room for the ladies.
The hall is surrounded by a pillared verandah on all sides. Interiors
of the hall are kept simple with simply a wagon-vaulted ceiling and a
flat roof while the exteriors are adorned with elegant marble and buff
sandstone inlay work done in geometrical designs such as the hexagons
and pointed star patterns. The roof of the verandah consists of sloping
stones slabs resembling 'khaprel' or tiles that are supported on pillars
and architraves.
Tansen's Baradari at Fatehpur Sikri has twelve
doorways.