Sukh Niwas — Attraction in Jaipur Municipal Corporation

Sukh Niwas, Amber Fort (Jaipur) 🌿💧✨

The Sukh Niwas (Hall of Pleasure / Hall of Happiness) is one of the most fascinating parts of Amber Fort (Amer Fort), showing how royals combined luxury with clever engineering.

Key Highlights:

🌬️ Natural Air-Conditioning: A channel of water runs through the hall over a marble floor, and when air passed through, it created a cool breeze — an ancient cooling system!

🪞 Decoration: The walls are decorated with sandalwood, marble, and frescoes, giving a royal and refreshing ambience.

👑 Royal Retreat: It was used by the kings and queens to relax during the hot summers.

🌸 Name Meaning: Sukh Niwas literally means “Residence of Pleasure/Happiness.”

📍 Location: Inside Amber Fort, opposite the Sheesh Mahal.

👉 Punch line: “Sukh Niwas – where royalty chilled in style, centuries before...

The Royal familics were living during the mid-day of summer season in Sukh-Mandir. This consists of a large oblong chamber with two side rooms and a verandah front overlooking the garden. The walls of the chamber are beautifully embossed in plaster in Mughal pattern The back wall ofthemainchamber has a beautiful marble cascade formed by a perforated marble screen which is connected with a stripped channel. I he cascade was once provided with running water from thetank built on the roof of the building and with the breeze passingthrough the perforations erved as a cooling device during summer. Rooms are having two dal wood doors adorned with...

Beautiful garden and the summer compound of the palace. You could see the natural cooling method. There was a part of the wall with miniature stepping to help evaporating water to help cooling down the space. The water continued via a channel across the space to the garden. Above the arches there are visible metal hook. Our guide mentioned these were used to hang curtains to keep the cool air...