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Taltoli Jama Mosque
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Religion
Affiliation	Sunni Islam
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Friday mosque
Status	Active
Location
Location	Taltoli, Kachua Upazila, Chandpur
Country	Bangladesh
Location of the mosque in Bangladesh
Geographic coordinates	23°27′55″N 90°41′42″E
Architecture
Type	Mosque architecture
Style	Indo-Saracenic Revival Indo-Islamic
Completed	1891
Specifications
Direction of fa?ade	East
Minaret(s)	Four

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The Taltoli Jama Mosque (Bengali: ?????? ???? ?????), formerly known as the Munshibari Jama Mosque, is a 19th-century Sunni Friday mosque in the village of Taltoli in Chandpur District, Bangladesh.

History

It was completed in 1891 in British India by Ab'dul Hamid Munshi of the Munshibari estate by a pond owned by the Munshi family.

Since then, the Imams and Muezzins called the local Muslims to the congregational mosque (then known as the Munshibari Masjid), where Jumu'ah or weekly Friday noon congregation prayers took place.

Architecture

Built by local masons, the structure is of Indo-Saracenic Revival and Indo-Islamic blend. It has four minarets in four corners of the structure, a hallway, the Mihrab in the main prayer room (musallah).

The Mihrab has a Minbar for regional khatibs to deliver sermons (khutbah) The exterior has a corridor by the pond for ritual purification (Wudu). The stairs lead to the top of the mosque. The structure houses a living quarter for the Islamic scholars and carved in library in the main hall for scriptures used during Madrasah lessons.

See also

• Islam in Bangladesh
• List of mosques in Bangladesh

References

• This article incorporates text in the public domain from the National Archives of Bangladesh.

External links

Media related to Taltoli Jame Mosjid at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website of the Ministry of Religious Affairs