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Memories of Dhaka: Saat Gombuj Masjid’s changing landscape

Illustration: Ashif Ahmed Rudro; Photo: Collection of MD Kaiser Hossain

Leave the distant past, Dhaka has changed so much in just the past few decades! The '80s and '90s kids will tell stories of the city that will sound like tales of some alien city to the newer generations. This photograph here is a testament to that. 

This is an image of Saat Gombuj Masjid in the Mohammadpur area – the iconic Mughal-era mosque after which Saat Masjid Road is named, is a beautiful mosque where you may have prayed or at least walked past by.  

But it appears different today, especially the surroundings. Some decades ago, when this photo was taken, large buildings did not surround the area. Also, there was a water body nearby, as you can see in the visual. 

Going further down in history, there is an artwork from 1814 which suggests that a branch or stream of the Buriganga used to flow beside the mosque. 

Those days are long gone now, and so are the days shown in this featured image. A scene of what once was, may be imagined with the photo and the help of a line from a book published in 1961, called Muslim Architecture in Bengal, by Ahmad Hasan Dani: "The mosque stands on the edge of a swampy pool, which dries up during the summer."

 

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Memories of Dhaka: Saat Gombuj Masjid’s changing landscape

Illustration: Ashif Ahmed Rudro; Photo: Collection of MD Kaiser Hossain

Leave the distant past, Dhaka has changed so much in just the past few decades! The '80s and '90s kids will tell stories of the city that will sound like tales of some alien city to the newer generations. This photograph here is a testament to that. 

This is an image of Saat Gombuj Masjid in the Mohammadpur area – the iconic Mughal-era mosque after which Saat Masjid Road is named, is a beautiful mosque where you may have prayed or at least walked past by.  

But it appears different today, especially the surroundings. Some decades ago, when this photo was taken, large buildings did not surround the area. Also, there was a water body nearby, as you can see in the visual. 

Going further down in history, there is an artwork from 1814 which suggests that a branch or stream of the Buriganga used to flow beside the mosque. 

Those days are long gone now, and so are the days shown in this featured image. A scene of what once was, may be imagined with the photo and the help of a line from a book published in 1961, called Muslim Architecture in Bengal, by Ahmad Hasan Dani: "The mosque stands on the edge of a swampy pool, which dries up during the summer."

 

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দ্রুত ন্যূনতম ঐকমত্য, তার ভিত্তিতে অতিদ্রুত নির্বাচনের প্রত্যাশা বিএনপির

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