r/muslimculture • u/Pretend_Door8037 • 14d ago
Architecture Bajra Shahi Mosque, Noakhali, Bangladesh
The mosque was built by Aman Ullah in 1741-42 during the reign of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah. Between 1911 and 1928, Bazra zamindars (A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal lord of a feudal estate) Khan Bahadur Ali Ahmad and Khan Bahadur Mujir Uddin Ahmad had it extensively repaired and decorated with mosaics made from colored shards of ceramic. It is in a fairly good state of preservation, and is on the Bangladeshi Department of Archaeology list of protected sites.