KHERUA MOSQUE BOGRA 1582 A.D.

This mosque is located in the village Kherua about 1.5 km south of the Sherpur district headquarters. A stone Persian inscription placed on the facade of the mosque records that it was built by Mirza Murad Khan, son of Jahwar Ali Khan in the year 989A.H./1582A.D. (Ahmed1960:161). According to S. M. Hasan "the mosque had a second inscription in Persian, now in the Karachi museum which refers to charitable endowments in verses" (Hasan 1980:27).