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There is an ancient mosque named Shah Shuja at village Walipur of Hajiganj upazila of Chandpur district. The mosque is rectangular. The religious building is about 14 meters in length and about 6.9 meters in width. The mosque was built in 1665. There are 3 entrances on the east wall and 1 entrance on the north and south walls to enter the mosque. ...... read full story

Walipur Alamgari Mosque can be seen in village Walipur in Hajiganj district of Chandpur district. A 5-dome religious building constructed in this verse. There are 3 entrances to the east side of the building. There are two gateways on the north and south side. According to an inscription of the mosque, in 1692 under the rule of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, a religious person named Abdullah built the mosque. ...... read full story

There is a one-dome bakhtiyar khan jam mosque in a village named Ujani in Kachua upazila of Chandpur district. It is a sanctuary built on a square, with a length of about 5.8 meters. In 1705, a religious person named Bakhtiar Khan built this mosque. ...... read full story

This mosque is one of the oldest patterns of village Palgiri in Kachua upazila of Chandpur district. At one time the mosque inside the dense forest was almost entirely within the mound. This mosque is restored while cleaning the jungle. It is believed that this mosque may have been built during 1532-1533 during the reign of Firoz Shah. It is a religious building built in the square. The walls around it are about 18 feet long. Although the mosque was redesigned in 1924-25, there was no change in its original feature. You can see the mosque near the Palgiri Begum Rabeya High School. ...... read full story

There is an erection of eight quarters in Naoga village near Rohanpur railway station in Chapainawabganj district. It was not known about its construction time. It is believed that the building was built in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Due to the construction strategy of this building, it attracts the attention of tourists visiting here. The building is considered to be a tombstone. To the locals it is known as Tomb Raipur. ...... read full story

This mosque is located in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj. This mosque was built in the footsteps of India's big Chamkika Mosque. ...... read full story

There is a mosque named 'Choto Sona Mosque', an ancient sight in Firozpur area of Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district. This Sona mosque, which is in the best condition among the historians of Gauda still survives in Bangladesh and remains in good condition. It is also called "Gem of Gour" or "Gem of Sultani Architectural". It is reported that the wall of the mosque and the dark one was once plated with golden color. So it was named Sona Mosque. Although this golden color does not exist at present. It is a rectangular building. The mosque is about 82 feet in length and about 52 feet in width. The width of the wall is about 6 feet. The mosque is built mainly by bricks. Around the walls of the mosque, the plaques laid on the walls of the walls are plaited with stone cover. Apart from this, the terracotta design of sapling, flowers, fruit, and Arabic inscription will also be seen in the wall of this mosque. The mosque has 12 domes. You can see 5 mihrabs on the inner western wall. The central mihrab among the mihrabs is relatively larger. The stones of mihrab are ornamented. To enter the mosque, there are 5 entrance centers on the east and 3 entrances to the north and south. There are 4 octagonal towers in the 4 corners of the mosque. There is a Zenana gallery in the mosque. Zenna Gallery is a special arrangement for women's prayers in the mosque. This mosque, built during the reign of Sultan Alauddin Hussein Shah (1494-1991), is located in Gaur. According to the inscription, Ali's son Wali Mohammad built it. Wali Mohammed is considered to be an Eunuch. So this mosque is also known as "Khwaja-ki-Masjid". A high platform built on stage in the northeast of the premises of Sona Mosque and there two carvings can be seen in stone. It is estimated that these two mausoleum mosque's builders Wali Mohammad and his father Ali. ...... read full story

This Darshabari mosque can be seen near the border between Bangladesh and India at Firozpur, Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district. There are ruins of a madrassa near this mosque. This madrasa is known as Darasabari Madrasa. Darasa is an Arabic word, it means reading. It is believed that the mosque may have been named after the name of this madrasa. The mosque is a unique feature of the Sultani architecture and decoration. The mosque was built in rectangularly. It was about 98 feet in length and about 57 feet in width.At present the mosque has no roof. Long ago its roof collapsed. There were 6 domes in the mosque. The present dome does not exist. There was a balcony on the east side of the main hall of the mosque. There are 7 entrance paths in the corridor. There are 7 more entrances to the main hall after the corridor. In the same way there are four more entrance paths on the north and south sides along the balcony. The western wall of the mosque had seven beautiful mihrabs. The central mihrab among these mihrabs is relatively big. You will see terracotta ornaments in the mihrabs. There are flowers, trailer-designs. There was a Zenana gallery in the mosque. Zenna Gallery is a special arrangement for women's prayers in the mosque. At the 4th corner of the main chamber of the mosque there were four towers and two towers at the two corners of the corridor. According to the inscription of the mosque, under the Sultani regime, Sultan Yusuf Shah, son of Sultan Barabak Shah, built this mosque in 1479. ...... read full story

You can see this madrasa at Firozpur in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district. There is a madrassa of Bangladesh-India border in Ferozpur. Currently it is destroyed. However, this foundation still continues to bear testimony to the ancient Madrasah. According to the foundation of the madrasa, it was a building built in the square. The length of which was approximately 169 feet. The walls were surrounded on the madrassa. And 40 rooms with walls around this. Each room was also built in a square. There was an open square in the middle of the madrasa complex of 123 square feet. There were 4 octagonal towers in the four corners of the madrasa wall. And 1 entrance between the south, east and north walls. In the middle of the west wall was a prayer room. Madrasahs were equipped with different designs. It is worth mentioning of flowers, leaves, fruits, geometric designs. In 1504, Alauddin Husain Shah built the madrassa. ...... read full story

The mosque will be seen on the side of a dighi at the place called Pirojpur in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district. The mosque still tells its past beauty today. It is rectangular. There are 3 domes in it. There are three mihrabs on the west wall of the mosque. The mihrabs were ornamented with stoneware ornaments. Various designs can be seen in the mosque. To emter into the mosque there are 3 entrances on the eastern wall and two entrances on the north and south walls. The religious building had 4 octagonal towers in 4 corners. The mosque is estimated to be built in the fifteenth century. The interior building techniques of the mosque will fascinate you. ...... read full story

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