Mosque and shrine, Feni
Mohammad Ali Chowdhury Mosque, Sharshadiমোহাম্মদ আলী চৌধুরী মসজিদ, শর্শদী
- Time needed
- Half an hour.
- best months
- Nov–Feb
- Cost
- Free.
A late-Mughal mosque at Sharshadi outside Feni town, built in the 1760s by the Mughal deputy Mohammad Ali Chowdhury: three domes, thick walls and plaster panels, protected and still in use.
At a glance
- Built
- 1760s
About
Mohammad Ali Chowdhury was posted to the Feni area in 1762 and built roads, tanks and this mosque. It is a typical provincial Mughal design: an oblong hall under three domes, octagonal turrets at the corners, arched entrances and rectangular panels in plaster on the walls. The Archaeology Department lists it, and the village around Sharshadi keeps it as its jame mosque.
Getting there: CNG from Feni town toward Sharshadi, about 20 minutes.
Things to do
- Compare it with Chand Gazi's mosque, fifty years older.
Good to know
- Between prayers.
