Historical Star Mosque

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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).              

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