23/07/2012
Situated in the suburbs of Bagerhat, at the meeting-point of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, this ancient city, formerly known as Khalifatabad, was founded by the Turkish general Ulugh Khan Jahan in the 15th century. The city’s infrastructure reveals considerable technical skill and an exceptional number of mosques and early Islamic monuments, many built of brick, can be seen there. Originally known as Khalifatabad and nicknamed the "mint town of the Bengal Sultanate", the city was founded in the 15th century by the warrior saint Turkish general Ulugh Khan Jahan. The celebrated city, listed by Forbes as one of the 15 absent cities of the world, has added than 50 Islamic monuments which accept been begin afterwards removing the frondescence that had blocked them from appearance for abounding centuries. The website has been accustomed as a UNESCO Apple Heritage Website in 1983 beneath belief (iv), "as an outstanding archetype of an architectural ensemble which illustrates a cogent date in animal history", of which the Sixty Pillar Mosque (Shat Gombuj Masjid in Urda), complete with 60 pillars and 77 domes, is the a lot of able-bodied known.Apart from these monuments, UNESCO aswell includes the catacomb of Khan Jahan, the mosques of Singar, Bibi Begni, Reza Khoda, Zindavir a part of the different monuments.