Histories

Shat Gambuj Mosque History & Beauty     The Shat Gambuj Mosque in Bagerhat is such a heritage. It become a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. Originally, the histoic Mosque city was known as 'Khalifatabad'. It is situated at the outskirts of Bagerhat town not very far from the dense mangrove forest of the Sundarbans. Khalifatabad was a Muslim colony. It was founded by the Turkish general, a saint warrior Ulugh Khan Jahan in the 15th century. The infrastructure of the city reveals significant technical skills in many mosques as well as early Islamic monuments. Baked bricks are used for the construction of the buildings. The planning of the city is distinctly dominated by Islamic architecture and the decorations were a combination of Mughal and Turkish architecture. Khan Jahan built a network of roads, bridges, public buildings and reservoirs to make the city habitable. There are about 360 mosques in the city. Among them the most remarkable is the multi-domed Sh...

Historical Star Mosque    Star Mosque is a famous mosqie for it’s archetectural beauty. It is situated at Abul Khairat Road Armenitola in the old part of Dhaka city. The mosque was built in Mughal style in early 18th century. It is known that Mirza Ghulam pir, a respectable zamindar of Dhaka built it. It has a five beautiful domes. The domes are decorated with stars. The mosque, both inside and outside is decorated with mosaic. Small chips of chinawre – plate, cup etc and pieces of glass have been used for mosic. This type of mosaic is called Chini Tikuri work, vase with flowers is an important decorative motif on the walls. Flower vases flower branches rosset, crescen, star,and Arabic calligraphic writing have been used in the overall decoration of the mosque. Hundreds of stars have been created on the domes of white marble. All over the mosque the motif of Star's dominate the decoration and so the mosque is called the star mosque ( Tara masjid).      ...

What is Statue of Liberty        The Statue of Liberty is a sculpture of a woman wearing a green loose gawn is a in her Roman goddess Levertasse. It is a statue of a woman made of copper. The original height of the statue is 151 feet 1 inches, the weight of the statue is about two and a half kilograms, with the right torch in the right hand, the book of the law in the left hand and the crown which is 10 feet away from one ear to the other with the cut, symblizing the liberation of the American side of the shoe. This sculpture serves as a symbol of the liberation of France and as a gift for maintaining friendship, which is based in New York, USA.                                                                                            ...