MIAH BARI MOSQUE 18TH CENTURY

Just about ten kilometers from the divisional Head quarter Barisal is a village named Ruiya under the union Karapur, where the remnants of a large residential complex is found. This complex comprises of two big tanks with associated ghat, ruins of several boundary walls and foundation of few residential buildings. These recall the glorious past of this settlement. This impressive two storied mosque structure is located on the north eastern part of the complex and eastern bank of a large tank, presently known as Miah Bari mosque. While this edifice bears no inscription, according to the historian M. Hasan it was probably constructed in the eady eighteenth century (Hasan 1987: 23), when two storied mosque structure such as the Khan Muhammad Mridha (1706A.D.) and Kartalab Khan (1704A.D.) mosques were popular in Dhaka