The Shat Gambuj Mosque, Bagerhat.I n mid-15th country, a Muslim colony was founded in the inhospitable mangrove forest of the Sundarbans near the seacoast in Bagerhat district by a saint Uluge Khan Jahan. He was the earliest torchbearer of Islam In the Soud who laid the nucleus of an affluent city during the reing of Sultan Nasiruddid 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 a vast sweet-water tank, clustered around by the heavy foliage of a low-lying country side characteristic of a seacoast landscape. The mosque a is roofed over with 77 squat domes, including 7 chauchala or four-sided domes in the middle row. The vast prayer hall is provided with 11 arched door ways on east and 7 each on north and south for ventilation and light. It has 7 longitudinal aisles and 1 Ideep bays by a forest of slender stones columns. From these columns spring rows of endless arches, supporting the domes. The arches are 6 feet in thickness, slightly tapering hollow and round walls. The interior and the exterior of the mosque give a view of rather plain architecture but the interior western wall of the mosque is beautifully decorated with terracotta flowers and foliage. Besides being used as a prayer nail the mosque was also used us the court of Khan Jahan Ali. Now it is one of the greatest tourist attraction and best architectural beauties of Bangladesh. 
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