The Church of Akbar.
Barely fifteen years old, Akbar was already leading armies against rulers of adjacent kingdoms.
Akbar then marched towards Lahore, in present day Pakistan, and conquered the capital.
He even ousted the mighty Rajputs from their home, Rajasthan.
All this before he was eighteen.
Akbar abolishedjizya, a tax that non-Muslims had to pay.
He granted Hindus the ability to freely worship their faith and build temples.
Akbar sent word to the Portuguese governor of Goa that he would like to hear from the Christian priests.
The church was built in 1598, and came to be called Akbars church.
Akbar holds a religious assembly in the Ibadat Khana in Fatehpur Sikri.
The two men dressed in black are the Jesuit missionaries Rudolfo Acquaviva and Francisco Henriques.
Three of Jahangirs nephews actually converted to Christianity, and was baptized in this church.
When that failed, his nephews converted back to Islam.
Jahangirs relations with the Portuguese began to deteriorate.
Akbars church was demolished in 1635, only to be rebuilt the very next year.
