“Sixty Dome Mosque” or “Shat Gombuj Masjid” Bagerhut,BD


The “Sixty Dome Mosque” or “Shat Gombuj Masjid”, located at Bagerhat in Bangladesh. This 15th century mosque is a UNESCO world heritage site.Sixty -Dome -Mosque

Bangladesh has three world heritage sites. The Shat Gombuj Mosque in Bagerhat is one of them. It is a 15th century Islamic edifice situated in the suburbs of Bagerhat (a district in Khulna Division), on the edge of the Sundarbans, some 175 km south west of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

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It is an enormous Moghol architectural site covering a very large area (160 x 108) square feet. The mosque is unique in that, it has sixty pillars, which support eighty one (81) exquisitely curved domes that have worn away with the passage of time.The structure of the building also represents the 15th century Turki architectural view.

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The Sixty Dome Mosque (Shaṭ Gombuj Moshjid)  is the largest historical mosque in Bangladesh and one of the most impressive Muslim architectural structures on the Indian Sub Continent

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