Kusumba mosque (Naogaon,Rajshahi-Bangladesh)
Kusumba mosque
Kusumba mosque is situated at the village Kusumba at Manda
upazila under Naogaon district and located on the western side of
Rajshahi-Naogaon highway. This mosque is just 50 km away from Naogaon city. It
is pre-Moghul and considered one the
oldest in the region. According to an inscription it was erected by a patron
Sulayman in 1558 during the reign of Ghiyath al-Din Bahadur Shah. In front of
the mosque there is a Dighi (large pond) which catered mainly for the need of
the ablution for the Musallis. Brick and stone are used for its construction.
It measures internally 12.34m by 8.07m with a wall thickness of 1.82m. A row of
two stone pillars divides the interior of the mosque into two aisles and three
bays which correspond to the arched doorways on the south, east and north
respectively. There are three mihrabs in the qiblah wall (smaller one is in the
ladies gallery). It has four octagonal corner towers of each corner. In the
north-west corner of the prayer hall is a raised stone gallery which is called
Badshah-ka-takht or ladies gallery. The roof of the mosque is covered with six
domes. Due to the earthquake damage suffered by the Kushumba Mosque, it is
under the protection of the department of archeology of Bangladesh, who works to
preserve the mosque and this wonderful attraction, for the future.So you are
welcome to visite this beautiful mosqe.
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