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| Sixty Dome Mosque in Bagerhat |
Among the various living monuments of the Khan Jahan Ali vogue, beyond any doubt the foremost brilliant and largest brick mosque in Bangladesh is that the Shait Gombuj. it's settled in Bagerhat district. For outstanding beaux arts worth.
The planet Heritage Committee of United Nations agency inscribed Bagerhat within the World Heritage list and it got the standing of the second World Heritage site in Bangladesh when Paharpur. As there have been an excellent range of mosques, the historiographer, a French monthly termed it a town of mosques. The earliest leader of Islam within the south, Khan Jahan Ali came from city to settle a Muslim colony during this swamp within the early-15th century AD.
The natural fantastic thing about the region had such an impression upon him that he spent the remainder of his life there. History says that he made concerning 360 mosques and as several freshwater tanks, further as palaces, mausoleums and alternative public buildings terribly very short area of your time.
Its name, that means '60 domes', is deceptive as truly, it's roofed over with seventy seven little domes supported by a forest of slender columns covering an oversized prayer hall and giving it the looks of a medieval church sepulcher. At sunrise once the rays of the sun penetrate the eastern entrances, the inside involves life.The exterior facades, with slightly 'battered' walls, have discernible recurvate cornices a concession to the native style.
Its name, that means '60 domes', is deceptive as truly, it's roofed over with seventy seven little domes supported by a forest of slender columns covering an oversized prayer hall and giving it the looks of a medieval church sepulcher. At sunrise once the rays of the sun penetrate the eastern entrances, the inside involves life.The exterior facades, with slightly 'battered' walls, have discernible recurvate cornices a concession to the native style.
