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mosque e nabwabi


"Mosque of the Prophet"), often called the Prophet's Mosque, is a mosque situated in the city of Medina. As the final resting place of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, it is considered the second holiest site in Islam by both Shia and Sunni Muslims (the first being the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca) and is the second largest mosque in the world.

Ahsan Manzil


Ahsan Manzil is one of the most significant architectural monuments of Bangladesh. Established on a raised platform of 1 metre, the two-storied palace measures 125.4 m by 28.75 m. The height of the ground floor is 5 metres and that of the first floor 5.8 metres. There are porticos the height of the ground floor, both on the northern and southern sides of the palace. An open spacious stairway comes down from the southern portico, extending onto the bank of the river through the front garden. There was once a fountain in the garden in front of the stairs, that does not exist today. The spacious north and south verandas of both the floors rest on semicircular arches. The verandas and rooms are covered with marble.

To construct the dome of Ahsan Manzil, the square room on the ground floor was given a round shape with brickwork in the corners. The room was then given an octagonal shape near the roof by squinches. This octagonal shape took the form of the drum of the dome. Finally, the kumud kali (buds of lotus) shaped dome was constructed by gradually slanting the eight corners to the peak. The dome is 27.13 m above the ground.

shatgombuj mosque of bangladesh.


Among the many surviving monuments of the Khan Jahan Ali style, undoubtedly the most magnificent and largest brick mosque in Bangladesh is the Shait Gombuj. It is situated in Bagerhat district. For outstanding architectural value. the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO inscribed Bagerhat in the World Heritage list and it got the status of the second World Heritage site in Bangladesh after Paharpur. As there were a great number of mosques, the Historian, a French monthly termed it a city of mosques. The earliest torchbearer of Islam in the south, Khan Jahan Ali came from Delhi to settle a Muslim colony in this swampland in the early-15th century AD. The natural beauty of the region had such an effect upon him that he spent the rest of his life there. History says that he constructed about 360 mosques and as many freshwater tanks, as well as palaces, mausoleums and other public buildings in a very short space of time.

Out of today's surviving mosques, the Shait Gombuj Mosque is the most magnificent and certainly the largest brick mosque surviving in Bangladesh. Its name, meaning '60 domes', is misleading as in reality, it is roofed over with 77 small domes supported by a forest of slender columns covering a large prayer hall and giving it the appearance of a medieval church crypt. At sunrise when the rays of the sun penetrate the eastern entrances, the interior comes to life. There is little adornment to this building other than the carved stone decoration to the central mihrab at the western end of the prayer hall. The exterior facades, with slightly 'battered' walls, have discernible curving cornices a concession to the local style.

the national mosque of bangladesh.


It is the National Mosque of Bangladesh. Its construction began on 1960, and has been going on in phases. Architect T Abdul Hussain Thariani was commissioned to design the mosque complex. The plan included shops, offices, libraries and parking areas within the complex. The design of the mosque reflects the architecture of the period as can be seen from the use of a white and almost cube-form for the main building. A Mosque without a dome over the roof of its main prayer hall must have been a unique experiment. The main building is eight storied and 33 meters high from the ground level. The area of the main prayer hall is 2464 SQ meters with a mezzanine floor of 171 SQ metres at the eastern side. Verandas surround the hall on three of its four sides. The mihrab of the hall is rectangular instead of semi-circular. Excessive ornamentation is avoided throughout the mosque, since minimizing ornamentation is typical of modern architecture. The Baitul Mukarram mosque is modern in its architectural style. It has found its place in the hearts of the Muslims because of the resemblance of its form to the Holy Kaaba at Makkah.

bangladeshi mosque .


angladesh has the seventh largest population of any country in the world. It has almost as many people as Pakistan, the sixth most populated country. But Bangladesh is much smaller than Pakistan. In fact, five countries the size of Bangladesh could fit inside Pakistan! The large population and small size of Bangladesh make it an extremely crowded place to live.
Muslim Mosque
Muslim Mosque

Roughly 83% of the people in Bangladesh are Muslims. This makes Islam the most common religion by far. To understand why so many Muslims live in Bangladesh we need to take a look at history. During the 1800s, Great Britain ruled almost all of South Asia as a colony. (Did you know that the United States used to be made up of British colonies also?) In other words, the separate nations of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh did not exist at that time. This changed in 1947 when South Asia gained its independence, or freedom, from Britain.

Since most people in South Asia were Hindus, many Muslims in the region worried that they would be treated unfairly in a country where they were a minority. Therefore, they formed the nation of Pakistan and many Muslims throughout South Asia went to live there. The division of South Asia into the nations of India and Pakistan is called “The Partition.”

Initially, Pakistan was divided into an eastern and a western section, since these were the areas where most people were Muslims. However, in 1971 the eastern section of Pakistan broke away and became the independent nation of Bangladesh.

Many Hindus who lived in what is now Bangladesh did not want to live in a country where they were the minority. So during “The Partition” they moved to India. Although many Hindus left Bangladesh, many other Hindus chose not to leave. These Hindus still live in Bangladesh. Today, about 16% of all Bangladeshis are Hindus. This means that 99% of the population in Bangladesh is either Muslim or Hindu. There are also small groups of Christians, Sikhs, and Buddhists, but they are a very small part of the total population.

Al-Aqsa Mosque



Al-Masjid El-Aqsa is an Arabic name which means the Farthest Mosque. To understand its name, and its importance, it must be remembered that the roots of Islam began in the Arabian Peninsula .
Ten years after the Prophet Mohammad(sm) received his first revelation, he made a miraculous night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and to the Seven Heavens on a white flying horse called Al-Buraq El-Sharif. During his interval in Jerusalem, the Prophet stopped to pray at the rock, and was given the commandment to pray five times a day.
Today, Muslims throughout the World use Mecca as the direction of prayers . However, for 16½ months following the Prophet Mohammad's miraculous journey, Jerusalem was the Qibla.During Prophet Mohammad's life , he instructed Muslims to visit not only the mosque where they lived in Mecca, but also the 'Farthest mosque' from them which lay 2000 kilometers north, in Jerusalem. Hence the name Al-Masjid El-Aqsa, or Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the second oldest mosque in Islam after the Ka'ba in Mecca, and is third in holiness and importance after the mosques in Mecca and Medina.
The rectangular Al-Aqsa Mosque is 144,000 square meters, 35 acres, or 1/6 of the entire area within the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem as it stands today. It is also called Al-Haram El-Sharif. The Dome of the Chain marks the exact central point of this Mosque.
Al-Aqsa Mosque holds up to 400,000 worshippers at one time, bearing in mind that the space required for each person is roughly 0.8m x 0.5m to enable the submissive kneeling in prayer. On Fridays at noon, during the fasting month of Ramadan, and particularly the 27th of Ramadan, the area is filled to virtual capacity.
There are 11 gates to Al-Aqsa Mosque: 7 of which are open. Of the 4 closed gates, one is the Golden Gate.
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