At the very first of 2011 my family decided to go to Bagerhat, my birth place,I could also said that, it was our NIYOTS, if i successed in HSC exam and got admission in a recognized versity to fulfil my dream,theAt the very first of 2011 my family decided to go to Bagerhat, my birth place,I could also said that, it was our NIYOTS, if i successed in HSC exam and got admission in a recognized versity to fulfil my dream,then we would pay a visit there after my HSC exam. After the exams, results and a long journey with versity admission tests, it stopped in BRAC UNIVERSITY. After finishing the processes of admitting BRAC UNIVERSITY on 27th December 2011, I felt relief. Then we decided to go to Bagerhat to visit the Grave of HAZRAT KHAN JAHAN ALI (R) , the SHAT GAMBUJ MOSQUE and the home where I was born.
On the 30th December,2011 at 9 AM, we started our long journey towards our destination. About 10 hours later we reached in the rest house of Bagerhat at 7 PM. after talking some rest we had done with our dinner in a little resturent, the food was tasty and then we walked for a while and took tea. About 10 PM we had returned to our room and got ready for sleep. That room was ot so comfortable and we didn’t get any other alternatives to stay.however we stayed there for only one night. At morning after refreshing ourselves we came out to do our breakfast and morning tea. On 31st December , about 8AM we got ready and get out to go to the grave of the legend Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali, when i was too young my mother and used to take me to the big pond by the side of the grave. there are so many crocodile is there, but we didn’t see that day. My parents said that i had seen crocodiles many times till my age was 1 and half year. It is impossilble to memorizing that days.
After taking Ozu we had done our prayers by the side of the grave and gave thanks to Allah for making a chance to visit that Holy place again and fulfil our NIYOTS. We prayed to keep ourselves safe always and make us good human beings. after passing there sometimes we had seen mani foriegners came with some chikckens to feed the crocodiles. The graveyard is known and also considered as a very holy place , where ALMIGHTY can listen to your prayers and help to find the solutions of many problems. From a long time back, many Muslims of home and abroad pay visit to save themselves from diseases and other problems and fill their NIYOTS. Really it is a very place, it’s silence, environment can refresh your mind and heart, and you have to belleive if ALLAh wants to save His strong FOLLOWERS.There were two big crocodiles namely KALAPAHAR and DHOLAPAHAR, DHOLAPAHAR were died about 25–30 years ago and he was burried by the side of the pond of the Graveyards. and the other one was died in 2006, he was kept in the museum of SHAT GAMBUJ MOSQUE. There is a sayings and everyobe beleives that those two crocodiles were “JEEN” and they were from the times of KHAN JAHAN (R). The crocodiles were too much big than the others, now their family lives in that pond.After spending there a short time we moved to the SHAT GAMBUJ MOSQUE and the biggest GHORA DIGHEE. There are 77 domes over the main hall and exactly 60 stone pillars. For that the mosque is called 60 domes mosque or SHAT GOMBUJ masjid in bangla.Now there is some descriptions of the mosque.In the mid of 15th century, a Muslim colony was established in the unfriendly mangrove forest of the Sundarbans near the coastline in the Bagerhat district by an incomprehensible saint-General, named Ulugh Khan Jahan. He was the earliest torch bearer of Islam in the South who laid the center of an prosperous city during the reign of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, then known as ‘Khalifalabad’.Khan Jahan decorated his city with numerous mosques, many water sources, the remarkable ruins of which are motivated around the most impressive and largest multidomed mosques in Bangladesh, known as the Shat-Gumbuz Masjid (160'×108'). The construction of the mosque was started in 1442 and it was finished after 17 years in 1459.The mosque was used and now also using for prayer purposes. It was also used as Khan Jahan’s assembly hall.The ‘Sixty Dome’ Mosque has walls of unusually dense, shaped brick in the Tughlaq style and a hut-shaped roofline that anticipates later styles. The stony pillers were covered by brick walls.The total length of the mosque is 160 feet and width is 108 feet. There are actually seventy-seven (77) low domes arranged in seven rows of eleven, and one dome on each corner, bringing the total to 81 domes. There are also four towers. Two of four towers were used to call AZAN. The interior is divided into many passages and bays by slender columns, which terminate in numerous arches that support the roof. The mosque has 77 thick domes with 7 four sided pitched Bengali domes in the middle row. The huge prayer hall, although provided with 11 arched doorways on its east side and 7 each on the north and the south for air and light, presents a dark and gloomy form inside. It is divided into 7 longitudinal aisles and 11 deep bays by a forest of 60 slender stone columns, from which springs rows of endless arches, supporting the domes. Six feet thick, slightly tapering walls and hollow and round, almost detached corner towers, resembling the bastions of fortress, each capped by small rounded cupolas, recall the Tughlaq architecture of Delhi. The mosque represents wonderful archeological beauty which was the signature in the 15th century. Till 20 years ago the entire parts of the mosque was red colored ( i couldn’t remmeber anything, my mother said), when we entered into the mosque we saw that all the pillars were coloured white which looked that the history is going to dark .It is really a great construction work. Then we paid our visit to the musueum , it was newly built then. There, we saw the mami of KALAPAHAR. it was too big! there were some other utensils of that time, some coins, some marbels of the children of that time which they used to play with, some books and so many things. Isn’t it a matter of strange, the things from ancient time we are watching?? After that we went to the GHORA DIGHEE, it was too big and there were so many pinkish lilies in the dighee. The biggest dighee was surrounded by many trees and they make a nice and lovely shade in the dighee, the place was calm and quiet.After returning from there we went to my father’s old office and after that the house where i was born. The most funny things was that we went there just before my 20th birthday.We had to leave that place at 2 PM ,as there is no place to lived in, after talking lunch we went to our room and came out to go to Rajbari, my father’s work place. when it was 10 PM. By this way 2011 ends and the next morning started with the wishes of new sun, new year and my 20th birthday, 2012. And the visit was my best birthday gift ever.
*Some specific information about the details description of sixty domed mosque is collected.
n we would pay a visit there after my HSC exam. After the exams, results and a long journey with versity admission tests, it stopped in BRAC UNIVERSITY. After finishing the processes of admitting BRAC UNIVERSITY on 27th December 2011, I felt relief. Then we decided to go to Bagerhat to visit the Grave of HAZRAT KHAN JAHAN ALI (R) , the SHAT GAMBUJ MOSQUE and the home where I was born.
On the 30th December,2011 at 9 AM, we started our long journey towards our destination. About 10 hours later we reached in the rest house of Bagerhat at 7 PM. after talking some rest we had done with our dinner in a little resturent, the food was tasty and then we walked for a while and took tea. About 10 PM we had returned to our room and got ready for sleep. That room was ot so comfortable and we didn’t get any other alternatives to stay.however we stayed there for only one night. At morning after refreshing ourselves we came out to do our breakfast and morning tea. On 31st December , about 8AM we got ready and get out to go to the grave of the legend Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali, when i was too young my mother and used to take me to the big pond by the side of the grave. there are so many crocodile is there, but we didn’t see that day. My parents said that i had seen crocodiles many times till my age was 1 and half year. It is impossilble to memorizing that days.
After taking Ozu we had done our prayers by the side of the grave and gave thanks to Allah for making a chance to visit that Holy place again and fulfil our NIYOTS. We prayed to keep ourselves safe always and make us good human beings. after passing there sometimes we had seen mani foriegners came with some chikckens to feed the crocodiles. The graveyard is known and also considered as a very holy place , where ALMIGHTY can listen to your prayers and help to find the solutions of many problems. From a long time back, many Muslims of home and abroad pay visit to save themselves from diseases and other problems and fill their NIYOTS. Really it is a very place, it’s silence, environment can refresh your mind and heart, and you have to belleive if ALLAh wants to save His strong FOLLOWERS.There were two big crocodiles namely KALAPAHAR and DHOLAPAHAR, DHOLAPAHAR were died about 25–30 years ago and he was burried by the side of the pond of the Graveyards. and the other one was died in 2006, he was kept in the museum of SHAT GAMBUJ MOSQUE. There is a sayings and everyobe beleives that those two crocodiles were “JEEN” and they were from the times of KHAN JAHAN (R). The crocodiles were too much big than the others, now their family lives in that pond.After spending there a short time we moved to the SHAT GAMBUJ MOSQUE and the biggest GHORA DIGHEE. There are 77 domes over the main hall and exactly 60 stone pillars. For that the mosque is called 60 domes mosque or SHAT GOMBUJ masjid in bangla.Now there is some descriptions of the mosque.In the mid of 15th century, a Muslim colony was established in the unfriendly mangrove forest of the Sundarbans near the coastline in the Bagerhat district by an incomprehensible saint-General, named Ulugh Khan Jahan. He was the earliest torch bearer of Islam in the South who laid the center of an prosperous city during the reign of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, then known as ‘Khalifalabad’.Khan Jahan decorated his city with numerous mosques, many water sources, the remarkable ruins of which are motivated around the most impressive and largest multidomed mosques in Bangladesh, known as the Shat-Gumbuz Masjid (160'×108'). The construction of the mosque was started in 1442 and it was finished after 17 years in 1459.The mosque was used and now also using for prayer purposes. It was also used as Khan Jahan’s assembly hall.The ‘Sixty Dome’ Mosque has walls of unusually dense, shaped brick in the Tughlaq style and a hut-shaped roofline that anticipates later styles. The stony pillers were covered by brick walls.The total length of the mosque is 160 feet and width is 108 feet. There are actually seventy-seven (77) low domes arranged in seven rows of eleven, and one dome on each corner, bringing the total to 81 domes. There are also four towers. Two of four towers were used to call AZAN. The interior is divided into many passages and bays by slender columns, which terminate in numerous arches that support the roof. The mosque has 77 thick domes with 7 four sided pitched Bengali domes in the middle row. The huge prayer hall, although provided with 11 arched doorways on its east side and 7 each on the north and the south for air and light, presents a dark and gloomy form inside. It is divided into 7 longitudinal aisles and 11 deep bays by a forest of 60 slender stone columns, from which springs rows of endless arches, supporting the domes. Six feet thick, slightly tapering walls and hollow and round, almost detached corner towers, resembling the bastions of fortress, each capped by small rounded cupolas, recall the Tughlaq architecture of Delhi. The mosque represents wonderful archeological beauty which was the signature in the 15th century. Till 20 years ago the entire parts of the mosque was red colored ( i couldn’t remmeber anything, my mother said), when we entered into the mosque we saw that all the pillars were coloured white which looked that the history is going to dark .It is really a great construction work. Then we paid our visit to the musueum , it was newly built then. There, we saw the mami of KALAPAHAR. it was too big! there were some other utensils of that time, some coins, some marbels of the children of that time which they used to play with, some books and so many things. Isn’t it a matter of strange, the things from ancient time we are watching?? After that we went to the GHORA DIGHEE, it was too big and there were so many pinkish lilies in the dighee. The biggest dighee was surrounded by many trees and they make a nice and lovely shade in the dighee, the place was calm and quiet.After returning from there we went to my father’s old office and after that the house where i was born. The most funny things was that we went there just before my 20th birthday.We had to leave that place at 2 PM ,as there is no place to lived in, after talking lunch we went to our room and came out to go to Rajbari, my father’s work place. when it was 10 PM. By this way 2011 ends and the next morning started with the wishes of new sun, new year and my 20th birthday, 2012. And the visit was my best birthday gift ever.
*Some specific information about the details description of sixty domed mosque is collected.
