Historic Dewan Sharif Mosque of Narsingdi

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The view of the mosque you are seeing is the historic Dewan Sharif Mosque of Narsingdi. These three-domed mosques are a symbol of the Muslim civilization of the Mughal period.

নরসিংদী জেলার পলাশ উপজেলায় পারুলিয়া গ্রামে অবস্থিত মোগল আমলের মুসলিম সভ্যতার নিদর্শন এই তিন গম্বুজ মসজিদ। এই মসজিদকে পারুলিয়া মসজিদ হিসেবেও দেখা হয়। ৪শ’ বছর আগের ঐতিহাসিক পারুলিয়ার তিন গম্বুজবিশিষ্ট মসজিদটি কালের সাক্ষী হয়ে এখনও দাঁড়িয়ে রয়েছে। এখানে রয়েছে ঈশা খাঁর পঞ্চম অধস্তন পুরুষ দেওয়ান শরিফ খাঁ এবং তাঁর স্ত্রী মুর্শিদকুলি খাঁর কন্যা জয়নব বিবির যুগল মাজারও।

Zainab Bibi built this mosque with three domes in 1719 Hijri. Craftsmen were brought from Iran, Baghdad, Yemen to build and craft the mosque.

It is known that from 1580 AD to 1722, the present Narsingdi (in this area of Dhaka district) was known as Maheshwardi. In 1717, Murshid Quli Khan was appointed Subedar of Bengal and married his youngest daughter Bibi Zainab to Dewan Sharif Khan, the fifth son of Isha Khan's fifth subordinate, Manwar Khan, and appointed the son-in-law as Dewan of Maheshwardi Pargana.

In 1719 Hijri, Dewan Sharif Khan's wife Zainab Bibi built the mosque according to the needs of the people of the area. This mosque has 12 bighas of land. There are 4 well-built ponds. The mosque is built on a 60 feet length pillar with 5 feet wide walls, solid stone pillars in between. The entrance to the mosque has a main gate, 3 doors on the east side, one door each on the north-south side. The masjid has a spacious courtyard inside the fortified wall. There are 2 towering minarets at the north-east corner of the compound. The crafts of the mosque are very artistic. So many years ago
Although the mosque was built, there is no way to understand that this mosque was actually built hundreds of years ago.

Source: http://blog.bdlst.com