Parliament House
India's legislature moved into a brand-new building in May 2023 — and the Lutyens-Baker sandstone original from 1927 still stands right next door.
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Architect Bimal Patel's new Parliament House replaced a century-old building that had grown too cramped. Both the old and new sit on the same Rafi Marg estate in Central Vista, making this a rare spot where a colonial-era civic building and its 2023 replacement share the same ground.
What to look for
- The 1927 sandstone Old Parliament House, designed by British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, directly to the west of the new building
- The new Parliament House itself, designed by Bimal Patel of HCP Design and built by Tata Projects, inaugurated 28 May 2023
- The Central Vista corridor — the central administrative spine of New Delhi — surrounding the estate with other government buildings
Rafi Marg, Central Vista, New Delhi; the new building first opened for official business on 19 September 2023.
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More to see in Delhi
- Red FortThe ramparts where Jawaharlal Nehru raised India's flag on 15 August 1947 still host that ceremony every Independence Day.
- Qutb MinarSuccessive dynasties handed this tower off across 170 years — Aibak started it in 1199, Firuz Shah Tughlaq capped it with a cupola in 1368.
- Humayun's TombThe red-sandstone ancestor of the Taj Mahal — commissioned by an empress, designed by Persian architects, and finished a century before Agra.
- Jama MasjidShah Jahan built his imperial mosque at the highest point of Shahjahanabad — the Mughal capital — and it was regarded as a symbolic gesture of Mughal power across India.
- Lotus TempleTwenty-seven marble petals, grouped in threes, fold into a single hall where any person of any faith walks in without condition.
- India GateAround 13,300 names carved in stone — soldiers lost across Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and the Afghan frontier.