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[name] => Binot Bibi Mosque
[post_id] => 1446
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Binot Bibi Mosque is the earliest surviving mosque in Dhaka built in 1454 by Bakht Binat, the daughter of Marhamat. It was during the rule of the Sultan of Bengal, Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah (1435–1459). Binat Bibi Mosque is the earliest surviving mosque in Dhaka built in 1454 by Bakht Binat, the daughter of Marhamat. It was during the rule of the Sultan of Bengal, Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah (r. 1435–1459). The mosque is located beside the Hayat Bepari's Bridge in Narinda area.
The mosque is a square, single domed measuring 12 feet (3.7 m) square internally with a single hemispherical dome, at the top of the square room. Entrances are from east, north and south. Pre-Mughal features included the curved cornices and battlements, corner octagonal turrets, and arches on the south, north and eastern sides. The ornamentation is modest and the building is coated with plaster.
Part of the mosque is being demolished as part of a renovation plan which includes building a 70-foot (21 m) high minaret, and the extension of the current building from three stories to seven.
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[name] => Vanga Shahi Masjid
[post_id] => 10254
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Vanga Shahi Masjid (ভাঙ্গা শাহী মসজিদ) is an ancient mosque in Bandura, Nawabganj. Its original year of establishment is not yet known. It is believed that it was built during the period of Mughal Emperor Jahangir, that's why it is assumed that it was built around 600 years ago.
The mosque has a legend about it. It is believed that one morning some people found it in the jungle with unfinished construction work. From that time the mosque has named "Vanga Masjid" as in the native language vanga (ভাঙ্গা) means broken. The Actual name of this mosque is still unknown.
But the truth may be like this- it was constructed at the age of Mughal Empire when Nawabganj area was a prominent merchant place. Due to erosion, local inhabitants changed their living place. At that time the mosque area was abandoned and forests grew rapidly at that area. After passing 100 years, people start making their residences in that particular area again. One day they found the mosque broken and reconstruct it.
Now it has became a well known mosque at Bandura Bazar in Nawabganj. People believe that donating here will turn their wishes true! So, the mosque has collected enough fund to built a minaret of 165 feet and still the renovation process is still going.
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[post_id] => 5104
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Shah Mahmud Masjid is an attractive building at Egarosindur may be dated sometime around 1680 AD. The mosque stands at the back of a slightly raised platform, which is enclosed by a low wall with a gateway consists of an oblong structure with do-chala roof. The mosque proper is a square structure, 5.79m a side in the inside, and is emphasized with octagonal towers on the four exteriors angles. All these towers shooting high above the roof and terminating in solid kiosks with cupolas, were originally crowned with kalasa finials, still intact in the southern one. The western wall accommodates inside three mihrab –the central one semi –octagonal and the side ones rectangular. The central doorway and central mihrab are larger than their flanking counterparts. The mosque has four axially projected front ones, each corresponding to the centrally located doorways and the central mihrab. The parapets and cornices are horizontal in the usual Mughal fashion.
All the mihrabs are enriched with terracotta decoration. The mihrabs are arched having cuspings in their outer faces. The pilasters, supporting the mihrab arches, show a series of decorated bands topped by a frieze of petals. The spandrels of these arches, though now plain must have been originally enriched with terracotta plaques. Above the rectangular frame of the central mihrab there is a row of arched-niches filled with varieties of small trees containing flowers. The mosque should specially be noted for its four axially projected frontons with bordering ornamental turrets, a device which must have been borrowed from the four axial iwan-type gateways of the Persian influenced north Indian Mughal standard mosques of Fathpur, Agra and Delhi.
The mosque has a very large dome at the top. Four corners of the mosque are having octagonal columns and the middle of the walls are having eight small columns (each wall two). The Shah Mahmud mosque has stylish terracotta at the eastern wall. Also it has expensive (considering that period) decoration at the top of the walls, columns and mini-minarets.
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এগারোসিন্দুর গ্রামে অবস্থিত অন্যতম আকর্ষণীয় এই স্থাপনাটি সম্ভবত ১৬৮০ সালের দিকে নির্মিত হয়েছিল। একটি উঁচু প্লাটফর্মের পেছনে অবস্থিত এই মসজিদটি নিচু দেয়াল দিয়ে ঘেরাও করা হয়েছে। মসজিদে ঢোকার ফটকটি আয়াতক্ষেত্রাকার এবং এটিতে দোচালা ছাদ রয়েছে। ছাদের উপর চার কোণায় অষ্টভুজ চারটি টাওয়ারসহ বর্গাক্ষেত্রাকার এই মসজিদের ভেতরের প্রতিটি দিকের দৈর্ঘ্য ৫.৭৯ মিটার। মসজিদের টাওয়ারগুলোতে ছোট কক্ষ ছিল এবং টাওয়ারগুলো অলংকার দিয়ে সাজানো হয়েছিল। দক্ষিন দিকের টাওয়ারে এখনও সেসব অলংকারের দেখা মেলে। মসজিদের পশ্চিম দেয়ালে তিনটি মিহরাব আছে যেগুলোর মধ্যে মাঝের মিহরাবটি অষ্টভুজ আকারের এবং বাকি পাশের দুটি মিহরাব বর্গক্ষেত্রাকার। মসজিদের মাঝখানের মিহরাব এবং দরজাটি অন্যান্য মিহরাব ও দরজাগুলোর চেয়ে আকারে বড়। মসজিদের প্রাচীর এবং কার্নিশগুলো মুঘল স্থাপত্যের মত সমান্তরাল।
মসজিদের ধনুকাকারের মিহরাবসমূহে টেরাকোটার নকশা করা রয়েছে। মসজিদের মিহরাবের সাথেকার প্রতিটি কলামে পাতা এবং শৃঙ্খলের নকশা রয়েছে এবং ধনুকাকার মিহরাব এবং ছাদের সংযোগস্থলে একসময় টেরাকোটার ফলক ছিল বলে বোঝা যায়। এখানকার মাঝখানের মিহরাবের উপরে বিভিন্ন ফুল সমেত ছোট গাছের নকশা রয়েছে। মসজিদের সম্মুখভাগের চারটি চূড়ার নকশার উত্তর ভারতের ফতেহপুর, আগ্রা এবং দিল্লির মুঘল আমলের মসজিদগুলোর পারস্য নকশার সাথে মিল পাওয়া যায়।
মসজিদের উপরে একটি বিশালাকার গম্বুজ রয়েছে এবং এখানকার পূর্বদিকের দেয়ালে টেরাকোটার কাজ ছাড়াও দেয়ালের উপরে, কলামে এবং মিনি মিনারে সে আমলের ব্যয়বহুল নকশার কাজ রয়েছে।
ছবির জন্য এখানে ক্লিক করুন http://www.panoramio.com/photo/91597929
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/91597914
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[name] => Autshahi Mughal Mosque
[post_id] => 9330
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[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IMG_20150527_1214038541-300x169.jpg
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Autshahi Mughal Mosque,is a ruin of Mughal period Mosque, just located beside the Autshahi (আউটশাহী) Graveyard. It’s silently containing the evidences of ancient time. People are avoiding to visit that site frequently as it is inside the boundary of graveyard.
It has two entrances and one bulbous shaped dome on the top. Basically, from the structural remains it would be very difficult to prove how it was being used or how it became so.
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