Chawk Mosque

Coordinates: 23°42′58″N 90°23′45″E / 23.7160°N 90.3957°E / 23.7160; 90.3957
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Not to be confused with Chawk Masjid, a mosque in Murshidabad, India.
Chawkbazar Shahi Mosque
চকবাজার শাহী মসজিদ
Chawkbazar Shahi Mosque in November 2020
Religion
AffiliationIslam
Location
LocationChowk Bazaar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Chawk Mosque is located in Bangladesh
Chawk Mosque
Shown within Bangladesh
Geographic coordinates23°42′58″N 90°23′45″E / 23.7160°N 90.3957°E / 23.7160; 90.3957
Architecture
StyleMughal
Completed1664
Specifications
Capacity10,000 people approx.
Dome(s)3
Minaret(s)2 Large
8 Smaller

Chawkbazar Shahi Mosque (

Mitford Hospital compound near the Buriganga River
. There are some square-shaped rooms built for the Imam and for students of the madrasa. Today the original building design has lost much of its original form through multiple renovations and extensions. The mosque is noted for having a rainbow minaret.

Interior & exterior design

The central Mihrab
The three domes
The interior of the mosque in May 2019


The promenade around the three domed prayer chamber, since there was no separate structure for study purpose, might have been used for open-air classes and the vaulted room with book-shelves on their walls underneath the platform may have been designed to provide residential accommodation for those who used to teach and study here. In that context Chawk Mosque may be regarded as the first known example of Residential Madrasa Mosque.

It is an ingenious[peacock prose] way of accommodating two structures-a madrasa and a mosque in a single building which not only saved space but also a considerable amount of money.[2]

History

Shahi Mosque in Chowk Bazaar (on the upper-left) - photograph taken by Johnston and Hoffmann in 1885

The construction has been dated to 1664, as noted by an inscription in the

Khirki Masjid or Kalan Mosque of Delhi. Influenced by this structure some other mosques were built in Dhaka and Murshidabad
.

References

  1. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka
    , Retrieved: 2012-09-18
  2. ^ a b *Husain, A. B. (2007). Architecture – A History Through Ages. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (page 287).
  3. ^ *Karim, Abdul. (1992) Corpus of the Arabic and Persian Inscriptions of Bengal. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (page 469).

Further reading

  • Mamoon, M. (1993). Dhaka-Smriti Bismritir Nogori. Dhaka: Anannya (page 78)
  • Husain, A. B. (2007). Architecture – A History Through Ages. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (page 287)
  • Karim, Abdul. (1992) Corpus of the Arabic and Persian Inscriptions of Bengal. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (page 469)

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