Historical Place in Chapai Nawabgonj

The mosque was worked amid the rule of Sultan Hussain Shah, in the vicinity of 1493 and 1519. The fifteen vaults of the mosque were once plated, giving the mosque the name of Choto Shona Masjid (Small Golden Mosque).[1][2] The mosque is one of the best-saved sultana landmarks under security by the Department of Archeology and Museums, Governments of Bangladesh. The plating that gave the building its name does not exist any longer. The mosque preface, which covers a zone of 42 m from east to west by 43.5 m from north to south, was initially encompassed by an external divider (now reestablished) with a portal amidst the east side.

Plaque at the passageway with a short history of the mosque


Worked of block and stone, the mosque legitimate structures a rectangle having outside measurements of 25.1 meters (82 ft) from north to south and 15.9 meters (52 ft) from east to west. All the four dividers are veneered remotely and to some degree likewise inside with rock stone squares. These stones have vanished from the southern side of the west divider due to protection works after the demolition by the seismic tremor of 1897. The four outside edges of the building are reinforced with polygonal towers, of which nine aspects are noticeable. The cornices are curvilinear and have stone canals to empty off the rain water out of the rooftop. There are five angled entryways in the eastern exterior and three each on the north and south dividers. Comparing to the five passages in the east divider there are five semi-roundabout mihrabs inside the west divider. The stones of the vast majority of these miharbs have vanished.

The inside of the mosque, measuring 21.2 by 12.2 meters (70 by 40 ft), is isolated into three walkways by two columns of stone columns, four in each line. A wide focal nave has cut the paths into equal parts, every half indicating six equivalent square units with a side of 3.5 m. The nave has three rectangular units, each measuring 3.5 by 4.5 m. The inside of the mosque has in this manner a sum of fifteen units, of which the three rectangular units are secured with chauchala vaults, and the staying twelve square units each by an altered tumbler-formed arch. They are altogether carried on transmitting curves springing from the detached stone columns and the drew in pilasters. The upper corners in the middle of the curves of the square units are loaded with corbelled block pendentive to make up the period of move for the arches. At the northwest corner of the mosque there is a regal exhibition shaping an upper floor, which is as yet remaining in a run down condition. It was drawn closer from the northwest corner of the mosque through a ventured stage associated with an entryway. The display has a mihrab in front.

Stone cutting, block setting, earthenware, overlaying and coated tiles were utilized as a part of enlivening the building, and of them the previous assumed the predominant part. The topics of the stone cutting were picked by the request of the spaces, e.g., the outskirts of the boards with creepers and their inside with different types of stylised hanging designs adjusted from the chain-and-chime of the Bauddha and Jaina period. The spandrels of curves and the spaces over the casings are constantly spotted with rosettes, an appealing type of outlines, yet are altogether cut in an unexpected way. The inside of the arches and vaults are adorned with earthenware pieces, those of the vaults being duplicates of the bamboo edges of neighborhood hovels. All the frontal entrances and those of the mihrabs are cusped.