The Sixty Dome Mosque In Khulna

Sixty Dome Mosque

Sixty Dome Mosque is one of the most remarkable Muslim structures in Bangladesh. The Sixty Dome Mosque in Bagerhat has become a major tourist appeal in this area. It is forming part of the World Heritage Site cultural place by UNESCOThe Sixty Dome Mosque (Bengali: ষাট গম্বুজ মসজিদ Shaṭ Gombuj Moshjid; more commonly known as Shait Gambuj Mosque or Saith Gunbad Masjid), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a mosque in Bangladesh, the largest in that country from the Sultanate period. It has been described as “the most impressive Muslim monuments in the whole of the Indian subcontinent. It is located in Bagerhat district in southern Bangladesh which is in the division of Khulna. It is about 3 miles far from the main town of Bagerhat. Bagerhat is nearly 200 miles away from Dhaka which is the capital of Bangladesh. In the middle of the 15th century, a Muslim colony was founded in the mangrove forest of the Sundarbans, near the coast in the Bagerhat District by a saint-General, named Khan Jahan Ali. He preached in an affluent city during the reign of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, then known as ‘Khalifalabad’.Khan Jahan adorned this city with more than a dozen mosques, the ruins of which are focused around the most imposing and largest multi-domed mosques in Bangladesh, known as the Shait-Gumbad Masjid (160’×108′). The construction of the mosque was started in 1442 and it was completed in 1459. The mosque was used for prayers, and also as a madrasah and assembly hall. The sixty-dome mosque is situated in the Sundarganjona village, located just 7 kilometers away from the city of Bagerhat in Bangladesh, on the north side of the Khulna-Bagerhat highway, sixty-five buses. There is no inscription on the mosque. So it did not find any exact information about the construction at any time. But there is no doubt about the architecture of the mosque that Khan E Jahan had built. It is believed that he built it in the 15th century. This mosque has been built for many years and with a lot of money. Its stones were brought from Rajmahal. It is one of the three world heritage sites of Bangladesh. The mosque is about 160 feet outside the north northeast and about 143 feet in the interior and about 104 feet outside the east side and about 88 feet wide in the interior. The walls are about 8 feet 5 feet In the south-west of the country, the ancient mosque was honored as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1983. The mosque has placed Bagerhat city among the three world-famous cities of Bangladesh.