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Among the many surviving monuments of the Khan Jahan style and undo-ubtedly the most magnificent and the largest brick mosque in Bangladesh, is the Shait Gombudge mosque which means'60-domed Mosque'.
During the mid-15th century, a Muslim colony was founded near the sea coast- what is now known as the Bagerhat district by a saint named Ulugh Khan Jahan. He was the earliest torch bearer of Islam to the south. He laid the nucleus of an affluent city during the reign of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah (1442-1452) at Bagerhat which was then known as Khalifatabad.
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Khan Jahan adorned his city with numerous mosques, tanks, roads, and other public buildings, the spectacular ruins of which are focused around the most imposing and multi-domed mosque. The stately fabric of the monument, serene and imposing stands on the eastern bank of an unusually vast sweet water tank clustered around by the heavy foliage of a low lying country-side, characteristic of a sea-coast landscape.
While visiting Shait Gombudge Mosque, the visitors may stay at Hotel Posher at Mongla. By road Bagerhat is 368 km. south-west of Dhaka. The nearest air field is at Jessore which is about 30 minutes flight from Dhaka. |
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