Fauti Mosque (also Phuti Mosque) is a mosque at Kumarpur in the

Murshidabad-Jiaganj Murshidabad-Jiaganj is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Lalbag subdivision of Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Jiaganj is located at Murshidabad-Jiaganj CD block lies i ...

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in the

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of Murshidabad district in

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. It was built by Nawab Sarfaraz Khan in 1740 AD. The old Fauti Masjid is one of the largest mosques in the town of Kumarpur and Murshidabad district.

Geography

Location

Fauti Mosque is located at It is about 3 quarters of a mile away from the grand and famous

Hazarduari Palace Hazarduari Palace, earlier known as the ''Bara Kothi'', is located in the campus of Kila Nizamat in Murshidabad, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is situated near the bank of river Ganges. It was built in the nineteenth century by archit ...

and its associated sites in the Kila Nizamat area (forming the central area in the map alongside) is the centre of attraction in Murshidabad. Just a little away are

Katra Masjid The Katra Masjid is a former caravanserai, mosque and the tomb of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan. It was built between 1723 and 1724. It is one of the largest caravanserais in the Indian subcontinent. It was built during the 18th century, when the ear ...

, Fauti Mosque, Jama Masjid and the

Motijhil Motijhil (also Motijheel, literal translation: Pearl Lake), also known as Company due to its association with the East India Company, is a horse-shoe shaped lake in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. It was created by Nawazish Muhammad Khan, the ...

area. There is a group of attractions in the northern part of the town (as can be seen in the map alongside). Some attractions such as

Khushbagh Khushbagh (also spelled as Khoshbagh; literally "Garden of Happiness") is the garden-cemetery of the Nawabs of Bengal, situated on the west bank of the Bhagirathi river, about a mile from its east bank, in the Murshidabad-Jiaganj CD block in La ...

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, Baranagar,

Kiriteswari Temple Kiriteswari Temple is situated in Kiritkona village under the Nabagram (community development block), Nabagram Community development blocks in India, CD block in the Lalbag subdivision of Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal. This is ...

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and others are on the other side of the river and there are attractions in the neighbouring

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area also (not shown in the map). Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in Murshidabad city. Most of the places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map. A few, without pages yet, remain unmarked. The map has a scale. It will help viewers to find out the distances.

History

It is said to have been built by Nawab

Sarfaraz Khan Sarfarāz Khān ( bn, সরফরাজ খান, fa, ; c. 1700 – 29 April 1740), born ''Mīrza Asadullāh'', was a Nawab of Bengal. Sarfaraz Khan's maternal grandfather, Nawab Murshid Quli Khan of Bengal (Bengal, Bihar and Orissa) nomin ...

in 1740, in a single night, however it is said that the

Nawab Nawab (Balochi language, Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب; bn, নবাব/নওয়াব; hi, नवाब; Punjabi language, Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ; Persian language, Persian, Punjabi language, Punjabi , Sindhi language, Sindhi, Urd ...

hired the masons for several months where the mater role was called one day. Before completion of the mosque the Nawab died or became '''Faut in a battle with Nawab Alivardi Khan. Hence the people renamed it as Fauti Mosque. This grand mosque is 135 feet long and 38 feet broad. It has five domes and four spiral staircases at its four corners surmounted by cupolas. However, the domes are still incomplete. The mosque at present is in ruins and has been overgrown by a jungle nearby. It may fall any moment. According to the

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, the Tomb of Nawab Sarfraz Khan at Naginabagh is a State Protected Monument (Item no S-WB-80). List of State Protected Monuments as reported by the Archaeological Survey of India
.

Fauti Mosque picture gallery

File:The Fauti Masjid - panoramio.jpg, Fauti Mosque File:Inside Fauti Masjid West Bengal.JPG, Inside Fauti Mosque File:Phooti Masjid,Murshidabad.jpg, Fauti Mosque File:The Tomb of Nawab Sharfaraz Khan at Naginabagh.jpg, Tomb of Nawab Sharfaraz Khan at Naginabgh, nearby

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