Originally Posted by GUWonder

I don't generally classify monuments by the religion of the ruler of the area at the time the monument was built. I don't think you do either.

Looking at them as purely religious monuments or monuments to religiouns wouldn't do most of the monuments justice and wouldn't do justice to the unnamed peoples of history who contributed to building them in small or even large measure or even the rulers who built quite a number of them. That said, there are certainly religious aspects to many monuments or religious monuments that are often integrated into such sites (or are the sites themselves). There are certainly many purely religious monuments that are definitely worth checking out. In India this includes monumental religious places of worship for many of the world's major religions -- bahai, buddhist, christian, hindu, jain, muslim, sikh, zoroastrian ... and the list goes on.

For people who haven't been to India before, it often times come across as hyper-stimulation of all the senses. It's really hard to imagine an American's first time trip to India not being memorable.