Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat

image source:click hereBagerhat is a part of the city included in the Bagerhat district in the southwest of Bangladesh. Bagerhat is 17 miles southeast of Khulna and 3০০ miles southwest of Dhaka. Another name for this city was Khalifatabad and it was also known as Pudina town in Bengal. The city was built in the 14th century by the Turkish general, Khan Jahan. Forbes made a list of the 4 lost cities in the world, and it is included in the list of more than 660 Islamic architectures. The city was selected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the year 4 "as an extraordinary sign of architectural work, describing an important step in history. Among the heritage sites, the 60-domed mosque is well known. Well, these are the tombs of Khan Jahan, the Singara Mosque, the Nine Dome Mosque, Singara Mosque etc.The mosque's city, Bagerhat, is only 7 km away from the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers. 3 sq km of the city. About 5 km east-west of the Moriband branch of the Bhairab river. And 20 km along the north-south. Widespread throughout. Which was once a part of the Sundarbans salt water forest. Observing the ancient signs indicates that the city was built in the 4th century and in that century it was known as "Khalifatabad". Keeping in mind the nature of the dense jungle and the tiger inhabiting it, the city is built with extraordinary structure for it. At present, all the architecture is in a safe environment, which has changed from jungle to farmland surrounded by trees today
source:click hereThe 60-domed mosque is an ancient mosque in the southwest of Bangladesh. There are no inscriptions on this. No exact information is available on who built it, at what time it was built. But when looking at the mosque, it has no idea about the Khan Jahan Ali who built it. He built it in the 5th century. The mosque was built for many years and cost a lot of money. The stones were brought from Rajmahal. It is one of the world heritage sites of Bangladesh; The city of Bagerhat has been given the status of a World Heritage Site. UNESCO conferred this honor on 9 CE.
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The mosque is 3 feet to the north and south to the outside and about 150 feet long to the inside, and about 105 feet to the east and about 90 feet wide to the inside. The walls are about 3 · 4 feet thick.The wall of the mosque has 11 large arched doorways. The middle door is large. The north and south walls have 7-8 doors. The mosque has 4 minarets in 4 corners. Their designs are rounded and they are turned upward. Near them Cornish has a buoyant band and a circular dome at the top. The height of the minarets is higher than the cornice of the roof. The two front minarets had staircases, and from here on there was a staircase. One of them is named Roshan Kotha, the other is Andha Kotha. Inside the mosque there are 60 pillars or pillars. They are located in 6 rows from north to south, and each row has 10 pillars. Each pillar is made of stone, with only 5 pillars covered with brick from the outside. The dome was built on 60 pillars and walls around it. Although the name of the mosque is sixty dome mosque, the dome here is not 60 at all, but 77 domes. Of the 77 domes, the surfaces of 70 are round and the seven domes between the door between the east wall and the mihrab between the west wall are very similar to the rice of the Chauchala house in Bangladesh. The number of domes in the minarets stands at 4 as the total number of domes is 81 Yet its name has been shat gumbuuj. Supposedly, there are seven rows of domed rows, as the mosque has seven domes and sixty domes. Many historians think that the name shat is gumbbuj because the domes are located on 60 stone pillars.

image source:click here picture of Ghoradighi (ঘোড়াদীঘি)
Today, the history of Bagerhat is traced to the Bangla Sultanate of Sultan Nasir al-Din Mahmud (1442-1459). His tomb is mentioned as the year of his death, which shows that the city was built in the 14th century. He built a city, a reservoir, many mosques and shrines, and his own shrine, which is all "the architecture of Khan Jahan", with roads, bridges and water supply reservoirs (ponds - two ponds still: "Ghoradighi" and "Dargadighi"). Khan Jahan lived and did many public works. It is known that for political and economic reasons, the Sultanate of Delhi wanted to propagate Islam in the far reaches of India, and Ulugh Jahan was given the task. Ulugh Jahan was known as an administrator for his extraordinary skills and architectural knowledge. He was also a nobleman, a saint who avoids unnecessary personal achievements. That is why his tomb is seriously preserved in Bangladesh and the righteous come here

image source:click here Nine Dome Mosque/নয় গম্বুজ মসজিদ
The nine-domed mosque was built in the 14th century. It is located on the west side of a dighi known as Thakur Dighi. Near the shrine of Khan Jahan Ali. Traditionally the west side wall of the mosque is facing towards Mecca, and inside the wall is a terracotta floral motif around the mihrab. The mosque has a towering tower in the four corners of the mosque. The walls of the mosque contain a huge dome with eight relatively small domes. Nine dome mosques were attacked by sulfate. Since then, it has been urgently protected. Near the mosque is the Zinda Pir mosque and shrine

Dighi The nine-domed mosque built on the 17.5m X17.5m land plan is located on the Digheer West. Its walls are 2.6m. The mosque is divided into nine squares with stone pillars at the entrance. The roof of the mosque is built of nine domes on the section. There are 3 domes in the middle and 3 in the back. There are nine domes in the back. The domes are arranged in a continuous manner, so that, as seen from anywhere, each dome will have the same distance from one dome to another. There are a total of three concave mihrabs after a certain distance on the west wall. They are intended for terracotta work on the spandrel. There are 3 doors in front of the mosque

image source:click here Ranvijaypur mosque/রনভিজয়পুর মসজিদ
The mosque is the largest dome in Bangladesh. It is 12 meters wide and pendentive and the corners have tapering turrets while the cornice has a slight curve. The interior of the mosque is simple. The main mihrab has designs. It is located next to the Khan Jahan Museum on Bagerhat Road. The mosque was built in the architectural style of Khan Jahan. Repairs were made between 1961 and 1971 several times. The mosque needs repairs inside and outside to remove the effects of moisture

image source:click here Chunakhola Mosque/চুনাখোলা মসজিদ
The Chunkhola Mosque, situated in the middle of the paddy field in the village of Chunkhola, was built in the 16th century. The architectural style of the mosque is recognized as representative from the architecture of Khan Jahan Ali. It is an 8 meter square building whose walls are 2.5 meters thick. The mosque has 3 entrances to the east and one entrance to the north and south. It has three mihrabs, of which the central mihrab is the largest. There are also squinches and half domes. The exterior, especially the structure of the eastern gate, which depicts four rectangular panels bordered by scrolls with merlons having motifs is different from Khan's architecture. It has four turrets with curved cornices. The walls of the brick are destroyed by the effect of sulphate. It was renovated in the 1980s, according to UNESCO