Shankarpasha Shahi Jame Masjid, ( bn, উচাইল শংকরপাশা শাহী মসজিদ, fa, شاهي مسجد شنكرپاشا) is an ancient mosque in the

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of Bangladesh. It was built during the 15th century. It is located in the village of Uchail Shankarpasha, Rajiura Union,

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History

From engraved inscriptions, it can be found that the mosque was completed in 1513 by Sultan Alauddin Husain Shah, On the memory of Shah Majlis-e-Amin, one of the Saints who came to spread Islam in the region along with Saint Sahjalal (R). His

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is located next to the mosque. As years passed, the area became entrapped in dense vegetation and forest land. Recently, this mosque has been discovered again.

Description

It is a one-storey building. The building has the same length and width which is 21 ft and 6in. The width of the

verandah A veranda or verandah is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front and sides of the structure. Although the form ''veran ...

is slightly above 3 ft wide. It has four domes. It has one large dome on the main building and three smaller domes on the

. There are 15 doors and windows, almost equal in size. The thickness of the walls are all roughly 5 ft apart from the western wall which is about 10 ft. It has six decorative pillars in the four corners of the main hall and two corners of the verandah. There is a large pond behind the mosque. The mosque has three doorways, with the middle one much larger than the others. There is a minaret separate from the mosque which is not extremely tall.

Gallery

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References

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