🏛️ Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat

Bangladesh · Asia · Cultural · 22.67°N, 89.80°E

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Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat
The Mosque City of Bagerhat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bagerhat District, Bangladesh. It contains 360 mosques, public buildings, mausoleums, bridges, roads, water tanks and other public buildings constructed from baked brick. The mosques were built during the Bengal Sultanate in the 15th century, of which the Sixty Dome Mosque is the largest. Other mosques include the Singar Mosque, the Nine Dome Mosque, the Tomb of Khan Jahan, the Bibi Begni Mosque and the Ronvijoypur Mosque. The mosques were built during the governorship of Ulugh Khan Jahan, a Turkic military officer appointed as governor in the Sundarbans by Sultan Mahmud Shah of Bengal.

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CountryBangladesh
Continent / regionAsia
List type🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)22.67°N, 89.80°E · view on map

Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat is a cultural World Heritage site in Bangladesh, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Sundarbans · Mosque City of Bagerhat · Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur · The Sundarbans.

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