The Shat Gambuj Mosque

In mid-15th century a Muslim colony was founded in the inhospitable mangrove forest of the sundarbans near the seacoast in Bangladesh 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(1442-59) then known as 'Khalifatabad' (present Bagerhat). Khan Jahan adored his city with numerous mosques, tanks, roads and public buildings. The Shat Gambuj Masjid. The cartel fabric of the monument stands on the eastern bank of a vast sweet-water talk, clustered around by heavy foliage of a low-lying countryside characteristic of a seacoast landscape.

The mosque is roofed over with 77 squat domes including 7 chauhala 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 1 Ideep bays by a forest of slender stones columns. From these columns spring rows of endless arches, supporting the domes. The arches are six feet in thickness, have slightly tapering hollow and round walls.The interior and the exterior of the mosque give a view of rather plain architecture but the interior western wall of the mosque is beautiful decorated with terracotta flowers and foliage.