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Name: 60 dome mosque
Location: Bagerhat, Bangladesh
Area:160 feet long, 108 feet wide. About 17280 square feet.
Built:15th Century
Architect:Khan Jahan Ali
Type:Cultural
Criteria iv Designated:1985 (9th session)
Reference no.321
State Party
Bangladesh
Region
Asia-Pacific
History:
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In the middle of the 15th century, a Muslim colony was founded in the mangrove forest of the Sundarbans, near the coast in the Bagerhat District by a saint-General, named Khan Jahan Ali. He preached in an affluent city during the reign of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, then known as 'Khalifalabad'.[2] Khan Jahan adorned this city with more than a dozen mosques, the ruins of which are focused around the most imposing and largest multi-domed mosques in Bangladesh, known as the Shait-Gumbad Masjid (160'×108').[2] The construction of the mosque was started in 1442[2] and it was completed in 1459. The mosque was used for prayers, and also as a madrasha and assembly hall.[3]..
