SAT GAMBUJ MOSQUE 17 CENTURY A.D.

S'at Gambuj mosque is one of the well preserved seven domed mosques in the ancient Mughal Capital Dhaka, located now in the Muhammadpur area of the city. "It may have been built by Nawab Shaista Khan, as the local tradition remembers. Stylistically it can be dated to the later half of the 1 7'^ century A.D." (Dani 1 960: 220) Picturesquely it was situated on the edge of a low swampy pool, which once formed a part of the river Buriganga presently known as river Turag that now sifted its course to about one km to the west. The original romantic setting of the mosque complex on a solid, spacious and buttressed high podium overiooking extensive water as background is now totally destroyed by the earth filling in the rear areas and subsequently the construction of several residences along with a five storied madrasa building on the back or west.