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Sixty-domed mosque
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Built by Hazrat Khan Jahan (RA), this magnificent mosque is more than five centuries old and is located about one and a half kilometers west of his Dargah. The mosque occupies a special place in the medieval architectural art with its architectural techniques and the decoration of herbs on red burnt soil. Although it is known as the sixty-domed mosque, it actually has a total of 74 domes, including four domes on the four-cornered Burmanj, and a total of 71 domes, including six four-story domes similar to the middle row Bengali rice. It is noteworthy that the chauchala roof and dome of the prayer room are built on arches supported by sixty pillars of brick and stone.

 

 

It is said that Hazrat Khan Jahan (R) brought all the stones for the construction of the Shatgumbuুj Mosque by boat from Chittagong, far away from the Rajmahal in Orissa, India as his miraculous power. The special influence of Tughlaq architecture is observed in the variation of the structure of the building. The wall around this huge mosque is 8 feet wide and has four minarets at its four corners. The cottage at the top of the south minaret is called Roshanai Cottage and has a staircase leading up to the minaret. The mosque is made of small bricks, 160 feet long, 108 feet wide, 22 feet high. There is a large arch in the middle of the front of the mosque and five small arches on either side. On the west side of the mosque, there are a total of 26 doors, including one door next to the main arch. The Department of Archeology and Museums of the government has taken over the responsibility of preserving this historic mosque and Mazar-e-Sharif of Khanjahan (RA) as antiquities. The mosque has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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