The Shat Gambuj Masque

Bagerhat is a really a place of historical interest. There are many historical things that look nice and attracted your mind. A lot of people came hear from different country to look his beauty because it is a great historical place. A lot of tourist visit every day and look his beauty. There are many beautiful place and many beautiful things who looking beauty.

In mid-15^th century, a Muslim colony was founded in the inhospitable mangrove forest of the Sundarbans near the seacoast in Bagerhat district by a saint Ulugh Khan Jahan. He was the earliest torchbearer of Islam in the South who laid the nucleus of an affluent city during the reign of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah (1442-1459), then known as `Khalifatabad’ (present Bagerhat). Khan Jahan adorned his city with numerous mosques, tanks, roads and public buildings. The most spectacular of which is the imposing multidomed mosque in Bangladesh, known as the Shat Gambuj Masjid. The stately fabric of the monument stands on the eastern bank of a vast sweet-water tank, clustered around by the heavy foliage of a low lying countryside characteristic of a seacoast landscape.

Bagerhat is a great historical place. There was a Mazar named Khan Jahan Ali Mazar who is fine one storeyed building. It has a beautiful dime. Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali was buried it. The tomb is made of cut out stones. It cannot be accurately said where from these were these were brought.  It is said that pir Khan Jahan Ali brought these from Chittagong by floating on water. On the tomb there are inscriptions in Arabic. An inscription says that he died on 25^th October, 1459. There is a small mosque nearby; a close associate of Khan Jahan Ali was buried outside the tomb. On the night of the full moon of the month of Chaitra a big fair is held beside the Mazar. Many people attend the fair.

 The mosque is roofed over with 77 squat domes, including 7 chauchala or four-sided domes in the middle row. The vast prayer hall is provided with 11 arched doorways on east and 7 each on north and south for ventilation and light, it has 7 longitudinal aisles and 11 deep bays by a forest of slender stones columns.

There is a big tank in front of the Mazar. The local people call the Dighti of Khan Jahan Ali. There are some crocodiles in this big tank. They come near when the Fakirs call them and give them something it eats.

The Satgambuj Mosque is a big and beautiful building. The mosque is beautifully decorated. It is said that it was used as a mosque by pir Khan Jahan Ali. The mosque has great attraction for the tourists and visitors.

There is a big dighi near the Satgambuj Mosque. This dighi is called the Ghora Dighi. It is said that a horse was made to fun before digging the Dighi. The horse ran straight and stood covering a certain distance. That distance was accepted as the length of the Dighi. That is why the Dighi id called Ghora Dighi.

Besides being used as a prayer hall the mosque was also used as the court of Khan Jahan Ali. Now it is one of the greatest tourist attractions and best architectural beauties of Bangladesh.

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The Satgambuj Mosque situated on the District of Bagerhat.