Sixty Dome Mosque
Bangladesh has three world heritage sites. The Shat Gombuj
Mosque in Bagerhat is one of them. It is a 15th century Islamic edifice
situated in the suburbs of Bagerhat (a district in Khulna Division), on the
edge of the Sundarbans, some 175 km south west of Dhaka, the capital of
Bangladesh. It is an enormous Moghol architectural site covering area 160×108
square feet. The mosque is unique in that, it has sixty pillars, which support
eighty one exquisitely curved domes that have worn away with the passage of time.
The structure of the building also represents the 15th century Turki
architectural view. It is anticipated that before 1459 a greatest devotee of
Islam named Khan Jahan Ali established this mosque. He was also the founder of
Bagerhat district.
Star Mosque
Star Mosque
was first built by Mirza Ghulam Pir, as a three domed oblong edifice. But an
over enthusiastic and zealous merchant named Ali Jan Bepari completely
remodeled and reconstructed it with extremely delicate and richly colored tiles
of variegated patterns. Ali Jan has added the new verandah, that is mentioned
in the introduction, on the east and spent lavishly on importing Japanese and
English decorated China clay tiles to improve the inner and outer show of the
mosque. It is now a five domed structure. In 1987, two domes have been raised
on an extension to the northern side without any respect to its antiquity,
architectural style and decoration.
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