Rahim’s grand mausoleum would have been a garden tomb as with Humayun’s Tomb and the later Taj Mahal; it is quite probable that the stone of the garden enclosure walls was itself quarried in the 19th century when marble and sandstone were stripped off the tomb structure. As with Humayun’s Tomb, the ground level arcade of Rahim’s Tomb too had a raised chabutra or platform which did not exist when the project began in 2014, though it was visible in archival images. Built of Delhi quartzite, the lower platform had been replaced with a sandstone plinth protection at a much lower level than the original chabutra – thus exposing wall surfaces that were originally meant to be buried.