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In that meeting he proposed to Major General Khan, then military administrator of East Pakistan, that a grand mosque be built in Dhaka. Umrao Khan agreed to help build such a mosque. The same year, a Baitul Mukarram mosque committee was established and 8.30 acres of land between new Dhaka and Old Dhaka was chosen for the site. At that time ...
Central mosque for the Bangladesh Armed Forces: Chhota Katra Mosque: Chhota Katra, Dhaka: 1660s Sunni: Lalbagh Fort Masjid: Lalbagh, Dhaka: 1678 Sunni: Also known as "Lalbagh Kella'r Tin Gombuzwala Shahi Masjid" and previously "Killa-e-Aurangabad-er Tin Gombuzwala Shahi Masjid". It is part of the Lalbagh Fort. Khan Mohammad Mridha Mosque ...
The Taltoli Jama Mosque (Bengali: তালতলি জামে মসজিদ), formerly known as the Munshibari Jama Mosque, is a 19th-century Jama Masjid of the village of Taltoli in Chandpur District, Bangladesh. [1]
In February 2018 the head Imam of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, led prayers and delivered sermons in the Gulshan Society Mosque during his week long trip through Bangladesh. [3] In September 2019 Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Julia Niblett and New Zealand High Commissioner to Bangladesh Joanna Kempkers visited the Mosque. [4]
The Baitul Aman Jame Masjid Complex (Bengali: বাইতুল আমান জামে মসজিদ, Arabic: بيت الأمان جامع مسجد), commonly known as Guthia Mosque (Bengali: গুঠিয়া মসজিদ) of Barisal, is a mosque complex of Bangladesh having a land area of 14 acres, comparing to the 8.30 acres land area of the national mosque Baitul Mukarram of ...
The Persian inscriptions on the mosque reveal that the Subahdar of Bengal Shaista Khan built-in 1667. It is believed that the mosque was built by the eldest son of Shaista Khan, Buzurg Umed Khan. He was also the conqueror of Chittagong. But, his name is not cited on the inscription.
In 2004, the International Khatme Nabuyat Movement (IKNM) besieged several Ahmadiyya mosques countrywide. [8] In 2004, the Government of Bangladesh banned all religious texts of the Ahmadiyya community. [9] On 17 June 2010 an angry mob vandalised an Ahmadiyya mosque and the house of an Ahmadiyya believer at Ghatail upazila in Tangail Thursday. [10]
The Jama Masjid was frequently used for non-religious, political purposes, against the rules instituted. While the British could police and clamp down on political activities in public spaces, the Jama Masjid was a religious space and was hence protected from such action, by both law (Religious Endowment Act, 1863) and the sentiments of Delhi. [22]