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Mosque and shrineIqbal Hossain · CC BY-SA 4.0

Anderkilla Shahi Jame Mosque

Chattogram

The Mughal mosque of 1667 on the hill of the inner fort, built by Buzurg Umed Khan the year after his father Shaista Khan took Chattogram from the Arakanese; the city's main mosque, with a Persian inscription over the door.

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Bharara Shahi Mosque

Pabna

An old mosque of the Mughal period at Bharara village near Pabna town, still in use for prayer.

Mosque and shrineMamun M Hossain · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tetulia Jame Mosque

Satkhira

An old many-domed mosque at Tetulia in Tala upazila, one of the district's best-known historic buildings.

Mosque and shrineAmdadhossain · CC BY-SA 4.0

Chand Gazi Bhuiyan Mosque

Feni

A Mughal mosque of 1712 at Chhagalnaiya, built by the local zamindar Chand Gazi Bhuiyan: three domes, terracotta ornament and a tank, one of the two protected monuments of the district.

Mosque and shrineAmdadhossain · CC BY-SA 4.0

Mohammad Ali Chowdhury Mosque, Sharshadi

Feni

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.

Mosque and shrineMahbubPathan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Hajiganj Boro Mosque

Chandpur

The great mosque in the middle of Hajiganj bazar, begun in the 1930s by the Haji family who gave the town its name: a wide prayer hall, a tall minaret and a madrasa complex around it.

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Mymensingh Boro Masjid

Mymensingh

The town's great mosque by the Brahmaputra, begun in the 1850s under a tin roof and now a three-storey hall for 5,000.

Mosque and shrineফজলুল জাহিদ পাভেল · CC BY-SA 4.0

Shankarpasha Shahi Mosque

Habiganj

A brick mosque of the Bengal Sultanate in Uchail, completed in 1513 under Sultan Alauddin Husain Shah.

Mosque and shrineAfifa Afrin · CC BY-SA 4.0

Shah Shuja Mosque

Cumilla

The Mughal-era mosque at Mughaltuli in the old city, three domes on a plain brick body, traditionally dated to the 1650s and the governorship of Prince Shah Shuja; still the busiest mosque in town.

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Jinn Mosque, Raipur

Lakshmipur

The late-19th-century Masjid-e-Jame Abdullah in Raipur town, called the Jinn mosque because local legend says jinns built it in a night: a tall domed hall over a basement, with minarets and old plasterwork.

Mosque and shrineMahmuddulbd · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tita Khan Jame Mosque

Lakshmipur

A small old mosque in the middle of Lakshmipur bazar, said to be about 300 years old and found hidden in a garden by a saint named Azim Shah; prized for its carved plaster front.

Mosque and shrineTahsin R Hossain · CC BY-SA 3.0

Guthia Mosque (Baitul Aman)

Barishal

A modern mosque complex at Changuria in Wazirpur, with domes reflected in a large pond and a minaret close to 200 feet tall; the most visited sight in the district.

Mosque and shrineJafar Cyclist · CC BY-SA 4.0

Kasba Mosque

Barishal

A nine-domed brick mosque of the Sultanate period in Kasba village, Gournadi, the largest of the old mosques of Barishal and close in style to Bagerhat's Shat Gambuj.

Mosque and shrineOmar Faruq Komol · CC BY-SA 4.0

Star Mosque

Dhaka

A small Mughal-era mosque in Armanitola covered all over in blue stars and floral china mosaic, one of the prettiest buildings in Old Dhaka.

Mosque and shrineKhalidrahman · CC BY-SA 4.0

Nayabad Mosque

Dinajpur

A small terracotta-decorated mosque of 1793 by the Dhepa river, said to have been built by the Muslim craftsmen who came to work on Kantajew temple.

Mosque and shrineMd Saiful Islam Khan (Aopu) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Baba Adam's Mosque

Munshiganj

A six-domed sultanate mosque of 1483 at Qazi Kasba in Rampal, with the grave of the preacher Baba Adam Shahid in its yard.

Mosque and shrineAsaduzzaman · CC BY-SA 4.0

Kherua Mosque

Bogura

A small three-domed brick mosque at Sherpur, built in 1582, where the Sultanate style meets the early Mughal.

Mosque and shrineMasum-al-hasan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Shah Sultan Balkhi Mazar

Bogura

The shrine of the saint Shah Sultan Balkhi Mahisawar on the Mahasthangarh citadel, a place of pilgrimage that draws crowds every day.

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Gopalgram Shahi Mosque

Magura

A Mughal-style mosque in Gopalgram, Shalikha, of tile-brick and clay mortar with flower carvings, now called Baitun Nur Jame Masjid and still in daily use.

Mosque and shrineBhoboghure · CC BY 4.0

Barduari Mosque at Garjaripa

Sherpur

The twelve-doored mosque of Garjaripa in Sreebardi, on the site of the old fort of Garh Jaripa: by tradition built by Jarip Shah centuries ago, buried by an earthquake, dug out and rebuilt in 1963, and now a five-storey mosque beside the Bara Dighi.

Mosque and shrineAyman Nakib Badhan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ghagra Khan Bari Mosque

Sherpur

A small single-domed Mughal-era mosque in the village of Ghagra Laskar, Jhenaigati, protected by the Department of Archaeology since 1999; by local account two defeated generals built it in the forest some 600 years ago.

Mosque and shrineSkmalamgir · CC BY-SA 4.0

Maisaheba Jame Mosque

Sherpur

The biggest mosque in Sherpur, about 250 years old by tradition and rebuilt many times, with two tall minarets you see from across town and a story about an elephant that refused to move.

Mosque and shrineAshik Sarwar · CC BY-SA 4.0

Parulia Dewan Sharif Mosque

Narsingdi

A three-domed Mughal mosque of 1719 in Parulia village, Palash, among the oldest buildings in the district, with the tomb of its founders beside it.

Mosque and shrineAbu Sayeed · CC BY-SA 4.0

Shah Jalal Dargah

Sylhet

The shrine of Shah Jalal, the Sufi saint who died in 1346 and is linked with the coming of Islam to Sylhet: the heart of the city and one of the most visited places of pilgrimage in Bangladesh.