Sixty Dome Mosque

Sixty dome Mosque

Sixty Dome Mosque an ancient mosque, located in the south-west of Bagerhat district. There is no inscription on the mosque. So who built the building or any time, accurate information is not available. However, it is seen that the architecture of the mosque, Khan-i-Jahan built is no doubt about that. He is believed to be built in 15th century. For many years the mosque was built, and many of spending money. Stones were brought from Rajmahal. It is the third World Heritage Sites located in one city been given the status of World Heritage Sites in Bagerhat 1983 AD UNESCO provides this respect.

The mosque is about 160 feet outside the north-south and east-west inward and outward nearly 143 feet long, about 104 feet and about 88 feet wide on the inside. It has about 8·5 feet thick walls.

History

Nasirauddina Sultan Mahmud Shah (1435-59) under Ulugh Khan Jahan Khan al-Azam built a State Khalifabad close to Sundarban. Khanjahan established a court for meeting after which the sixty-domed mosque, the mosque it costs money for many years, and many were in the building. Stones were brought from Rajmahal. Tughalaki and Jaunpuri architecture showed it clearly.

Externals

Sixty Dome of the mosque structure

The east walls of the mosque have 11 large-sized vault linked doors. The middle door is bigger than others. The north and south walls have 7 doors. 4 corners of the mosque have 4 minarets. The design is round and they narrow towards the top. There are annular bands its cornice and has rounded dome summit. The height of the towers more than the roof cornice. The two minarets in front of a spiral staircase and from there were made ​​to Azan. The name of one of them Raushan Kotha , the name of the other Andhar-Kotha . There are 60 columns or pillars inside the mosque. They are located in rows and each row from north to south 6 to 10 pillars. Each column made ​​out of stone, only 5 pillars were covered with bricks from the outside. The 60 pillars and walls have been built on the dome. The name of the mosque sixty dome (60 domes) at the dome of the mosque, but not 60, 77 of the dome. Spherical surface 70 of the dome 77 and between the east and west walls of the mihrab wall between the doors in the middle row of the seven domes see a lot of them like four tin shed  house . Minar No 4 in the dome, the total dome on the number 81. Yet his name was Shatgumbad. Historians believe that there is a row of seven rows of the dome of the mosque and the Dome of the seven Shatgumbad name. Many historians believe that the name is on the domes 60 stone pillars were Shatgumbad.

The interior of the

Interior view of the dome of the mosque sixty

There are10 in the west wall of the mosque mihrab (Mihrab , the mosque is an integral part of ornamented - which is basically the religion of Islam Qibla or direction of worship is made.). The central mihrab was larger and ornamented. The mihrab on the south and north has 5 to 4 mihrab. Just next to the mihrab in the middle of the northern side of the place where there is supposed to be 1 of the mihrab 1 small door. According to some, Khan-i-Jahan mosque prayer used as an addition to the court room, and the door was the entrance of the court house. Others said the mosque was used as a madrasa.