Bangladesh have many historical
place .
The Shat Gambuj Mosque is one of
them. In mid-15
th century, a Muslim colony was founded in the
inhospitable mangrove forest of the Sundarbans near the seacoast in Bagerhat
district by a saint Ulugh Khan Jahan. He was the earliest torchbearer of Islam
in the South who laid the nucleus of an affluent city during the reign of
Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah (1442-59), then known as `Khalifatabad’
(present Bagerhat). Khan Jahan
adorned his city with numerous mosques, tanks, roads and public buildings. The
most spectacular of which is the imposing multimode mosque in Bangladesh,
known as the Shat Gambuj Masjid. The stately fabric of the monument stands on
the eastern bank of a vast sweet- water tank, clustered around by the heavy foliage
of a low-lying countryside
characteristic of the seacoast landscape. The mosque is roofed over with 77
squat domes, including 7 chauchala of four-sided domes in the diddle row. The
vast prayer hall is provided with 11 arched doorways on east and 7 each on
north and south for ventilation and light. It has 7 longitudinal aisles and 1 I
deep bays by a forest of slender stones columns. From these columns spring rows
of endless arches, supporting the domes. The arches are six feet in thickness,
have slightly tapering hollow and round walls. The interior and exterior of the
mosque give a view of rather plain architecture but the interior western wall
of the mosque is beautifully decorated with terracotta flowers and foliage.
Besides being being as a prayer nail the
mosque was also used as the court of
Khan Jahan Ali. Now it is one of the greatest tourist attractions and best
architectural beauties of Bangladesh
.