Chini Mosque

Chini Mosque (Bengali: চিনি মসজিদ, Urdu: چنی مسجد‎) is located in Saidpur city of Nilphamari district in Rangpur Division of Bangladesh. The mosque is also known as Glass Mosque. The construction of the mosque started in 1863 by Haji Bakir Ali Ahmed and was completed within a year as a little prayer house. Lately Wazir Ali Ahmed who's belongs from founders family started the extension and modification work of this mosque. After that in at the middle of 20th century the sons of Late Wazir Ali Ahmed, Mofizuddin Ahmed & Shafiuddin Ahmed (well known as cloth merchants) continue the beautification work of the mosque. At the time the ceramics pieces brought form Kolkata as there was no any ceramic factory in East Pakistan/Bengal (present Bangladesh). [1]

Chini Mosque

Architecture and design

Chini Masjid has twenty seven minars of which five are incomplete.

See also

References
  1. http://invitetobd.blogspot.com/2012/01/chini-masjid-or-glass-mosque.html

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