Oldest Mosque Tour


 Nayabad Mosque Located in Nayabad village of Kaharol upazila, about 20 km from Dinajpur city in Bangladesh, this mosque is built on 1.15 bigha of land. It is an archaeological site listed by the Directorate of Archeology of Bangladesh.


 The plaque placed on the main entrance door of the mosque indicates that it was built during the reign of Emperor Shah Alam II, 2nd Baroso Bangabd English, and was built in 1793 when the landlord was Raja Baidyanath, the last descendant of the Dinajpur royal family. The architects and workers who built this mosque came from some western country and settled in Nayabad and built this mosque for their own use.This three-domed mosque has four 12.45m 5.5l four armadaminas in its four corners.

 Most of the terracotta terracotta works used in the construction of the mosque are now gone and those that are there are not fully intact.There are a total of 104 terracottas remaining in the mosque which are rectangular in size 0.40m by 0.30m wall thickness 1.10m The mosque has one window each in north and south. There is a grave next to it but no information about it is given in any part of the grave or the mosque but it is said that it is the grave of a construction worker of the mosque.

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