Futtehpoor Sikra, a town of British India, Northwest Provinces, in the district and 23 m. W. of the city of Agra; pop. about 5,000. It was enclosed by a high stone wall, 5 m. in circuit, with towers and battlements, by the emperor Akbar, whose favorite residence it was; but it contains now little more than heaps of massive ruins, a grand mosque, and a good bazaar. The mosque is built on a commanding hill, and is still in tolerable repair. Near the remains of a vast palace is a column 40 or 50 ft. high, built of composition moulded to imitate elephants' tusks; and outside the walls is a ruined embankment, 20 m. in circuit, which pent up the waters of a torrent till they formed a broad lake, on the margin of which was an amphitheatre for public games. These great works were constructed by Akbar about 1571.