Historic Chandgazi Bhuiyan Mosque | Feni
Historic Chandgazi Bhuiyan Mosque:
Historic Chandgazi Bhuiyan Mosque is located at Bhuiyan house in a village named Matiyagoda of Chagalnaiya upazila under the Feni district of Bangladesh. One can reach this mosque of Bhuiyan house by going north-west for about 7 kilometers from Chagalnaia upazila Sadar.
This mosque built in Mughal architecture, has three domes on its roof. Among the three domes located in a row, the middle dome of the mosque is comparatively larger in size. The inverted lotus with the miniature pitcher on the domes is beautifully designed to enhance the beauty of the mosque. It also has twelve minarets of the same architectural style on its exterior and a floral design on the wall above the door. Its identity is found in the inscription on the wall above the front entrance of the mosque.
It is said that this historic mosque is built at a place named Matiyagoda of Feni sometime between 1635 CE and 1700 CE by Chandgazi Bhuiyan, a tax collector recognized by the Mughal Empire. It is known that Chandgazi Bhuiyan was a well-known zamindar in the eastern part of Feni. He is a pious and philanthropic person. He is said to have arrived in this region during the Mughal period. In 1635 CE, he first arrived in the southwest of a place namely Sonagazi in the Feni Region. Later, due to the erosion of the river, he settled in the village of Matiyagoda in the present Mahamaya Union along with his huge wealth and people. And he established himself as a Mughal leased zamindar.
It is also known from history that his zamindari extended to the foothills of Tripura state and the eastern part of the present Feni district. After the fall of the Mughal Empire, the zamindari of Chandgazi Bhuiyan was abolished by the then Tripura Maharaja Lakshmanaditya Manikya Bahadur.
According to the Bangladesh Gazette published on 1 October 1987, the historic Chandghazi Bhuiyan Mosque is a protected archaeological monument of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. This historic mosque is currently enlisted and under the supervision of the Department of Archaeology under the Ministry of Culture Affairs. [Md. Shahin Alam]
Ref: Department of Archaeology, Bangladesh.
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