Sura Mosque
The Sura Mosque is a mosque in the village ChorGasa under Ghorahat Upazella in Dinajpur District, Bangladesh.
Location and history
The Sura Mosque stands in the village ChorGasa under Ghorahat Upazella in Dinajpur District, about 6 km from upazella headquarter. Although unadorned, the Sura mosque is dated back to the early sixteenth century in the light of its close links with dated monuments of that time. Recently an inscription from the time of Alauddin Hussain Shah, dated at 910 A. H./1504 A. D. was discovered in the village Champatali, a few miles away from the place. It records the construction of a mosque. If this inscription is taken to have any connection with the mosque at Sura, the year 1504 A. D. can be assumed as the date of its construction.
Description
The mosque stands on a raised mound of earth and is approached from the east by a flight of steps. It is belongs to the group of a square shaped room with a foreroom. It has a 4.87m square Prayer chamber flanked on the east by a 1.82 m wide foreroom and measures externally 8.53 m by 12.50 m.
The kiblah wall contains three mihrab niches of stone enclosed within rectangular frame. The brick walls are faced with stone slab from within and the outside surfaces have some evidence of rich carving work of terracotta imitation. The combination of the terracotta-paneled outside facade with stone faced octagonal corner turrets is the only example of the " brick and stone style architecture" in Bangladesh. [1] [2]
References
- ↑ "Sura Mosque". Banglapedia. 2006. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
- ↑ Hasan, Perween (2007). Sultans and mosques: the early Muslim architecture of Bangladesh. I. B. Tauris & Co.
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