[Bangladesh][Historical Places]Shat Gambuj Mosque

In mid-15th century, a Muslim colony was based within the unfriendly flowering tree forest of the Sundarbans close to the outline within the Bagerhat district by AN obscure saint-General, named Ulugh Khan Jahan. He was the earliest torch bearer of Islam within the South WHO set the middle of AN affluent town throughout the reign of swayer Nasiruddin Mahmud monarch (1442-59), then called 'Khalifalabad' (present Bagerhat). Khan Jahan aborned his town with various mosques, tanks, roads and different public buildings, the spectacular ruins of that square measure targeted round the most imposing and largest multidomed mosques in East Pakistan, called the Shait-Gumbad house of prayer (160'X108'). The stately material of the monument, serene and spectacular, stands on the jap bank of a strangely immense sweet-water tank, clustered around by the significant foliage of a low-laying rural area, characteristic of a sea-coast landscape. thus within the year 1459 the nice Azam Ulugh Khan Jahan established this masjid, that referred to as Shat Gambuj Mosjid. In Bengali Shat means that the quantity sixty. tho' it's referred to as Shat Gambuj Mosjid, truly the numbers of Gamboj within the masjid square measure eighty one. The masjid roofed over with seventy seven squat domes, as well as seven chauchala or many-sided pitched Bengali domes within the middle row. The immense prayer hall, though supplied with eleven arched doorways on east and seven every on north and south for ventilation and light-weight, presents a dark and somber look within. it's divided into seven longitudinal aisles and eleven deep bays by a forest of slender stone columns, from that springs rows of endless arches, supporting the domes. Six feet thick, slightly tapering walls and hollow and spherical, virtually detached corner towers, resembling the bastions of defence, every capped by little rounded cupolas, recall the Tughlaq design of Old Delhi.

The general look of this noble monument with its stark simplicity however huge character reflects the strength and ease of the builder. This masjid is one hundred sixty linear unit long and 108 linear unit. in its dimension. this is often one among the foremost stunning anthropology and historical masjid in East Pakistan created by red burn mud.