It consists of 13 architectural astronomy instruments, built by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur, from 1724 onwards.
It is one of five built by him.
Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah gave him the task of revising the calendar and astronomical tables.
There was plaque fixed on one of the structures in the Jantar Mantar observatory in 1910 mistakenly dating the construction of the complex to the year 1710.
Later research, though, suggests 1724 as the actual year of construction.
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