The Historic mosque city of Bagerhat located in the south west part of Bangladesh, at the meeting point of the Ganges and Brahmaputra River. This ancient city, formerly known Khalifatabad, sprawls over on the southern bank of the old river Bhairab and flourished in the 15th century AD.
The magnificent city, which extended for 50 square kilometers, contains some of the most significant buildings of the initial period of the development of Muslim architecture of Bengal. They include 360 mosques, buildings, mausoleums, bridge, road, water tanks and other public building constructed from baked brick.
This old city, created within a few years and cover up by the jungle after the death of its founder in 1459, is striking because of certain uncommon features. The density of Islamic religious monuments is explained by the piety of Khan Jahan Ali, which is evidenced by the engraved inscription on his tomb.
The historic mosque city of Bagerhat presents the vestiges of a medieval Muslim town in the northern peripheral land of the Sundarbans. Its contain some of the most the most prominent building of the initial period the development of Muslim architecture in Bengal. Shait-Gumbad is one of the largest mosques and represents the flavor of the traditional orthodox mosque plan and it declared by UNESCO as a world heritage site because this is the only example of its kind in the whole of Bengal. The second important monument, Khan Jahan’s tomb, is an extraordinary representation of this type of architecture as well as calligraphic parlance. The site exhibits a unique architecture style, known as Khan-e- Jahan (15th century A.D.), which is the only known example in the history of architecture.
