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Mahasthan Mosque a single-domed square Mughal mosque,
situated in the southeastern corner of mahasthangarh
(Mahasthangad).It is locally known as Mahasthan mosque or Mahasthangarh
mosque. A Persian inscription engraved on a black-stone tablet set over
the entrance of the mosque records its construction by one Khodadil in
1130 AH/1718 AD, that is, during the reign of the Mughal emperor farrukh
siyar (1717-1727 AD) Originally, the mosque was a single domed
small square structure (externally 7m × 7m) with three mihrabs
on the western inner wall and three corresponding doorways on the eastern
facade wall.
| The northern and southern walls
contained one entrance each. The arches of the doorways and mihrab-niches
are variegated with multi-cusps. The central mihrab and the corresponding
central doorway are larger than the side ones and framed within
rectangular panels. Both the central doorway on the facade and the
central mihrab projection on the outer face of the western wall
show ornamental flanking minarets. The mosque has four octagonal
corner towers at its outer corners. |
Mahasthan mosque plan, Bogra |
The brick-built mosque was plastered. Its arch spandrels
were decorated sparsely with floral designs in plaster. The dome rested
on drums carried on sidewalls and squinches that have no pillar support.
The low horizontal parapets and drum of the dome are decorated with blind
merlons. The top of the parapet is relieved with small glazed terracotta
pinnacles. The dome is also crowned by similar glazed terracotta finial.
The small 18th century mosque is now a big Jami Mosque, extended with
pillared hypostyle sheds on all sides except the west. It is whitewashed
with lime over thick plaster. [Md Ayoub Khan]
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