World Heritage Site All Time in Asia
In mid-15th century, a Muslim colony was founded in the inhospitable mangrove forest of the Sundarbans (situated in Bangladesh & now counting as world’s natural wonder) near the seacoast in Bagerhat 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 adorned his city with numerous mosques, tanks, roads and public buildings. The most spectacular of which is the imposing multi-domed mosque in Bangladesh, known as the Shat Gambuj Masjid. The stately fabric of the monument stands on the eastern bank of a vast sweet-water tank, clustered around by the heavy foliage of a low-laying countryside characteristic of a seacoast landscape . The mosque is roofed over with 77 squat domes, including 7 four-sided domes in the middle row. The vast prayer hall is provided with 11 arched doorways...