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(4) Chamkatti mosque, Gaur. Inscription lost, 880 H. (?) 



or 1475 A.D. Hall 23-8" sq. (externally 50''4"x 



34'-10"); one bay in the back-wall; both hall and 



corridor, have each five openings (3 + 1 + 1) ; no 



domes over the corridor : four octagonal corner 



towers ; wall-face divided into panels, ornamented 



with chain and bell, and bordered with glazed 

 tiles. 



(5) Lattan mosque, Gaur. Inscription ]ost, 880 H.(?) or 



1475 A.D. Hall 34 ft. sq (74 J x 51') ; hall openings 

 nine (3 + 3 + 3) and corridor openings five (3 + 1 + 1); 

 3 bays in the back- wall: corner towers six, four 

 on four sides of the hall and two on the front 

 side of the corridor; three small domes on the 

 corridor; the whole wall surface, inside and out- 

 side, covered with beautiful glazed tiles. 



(6) The mosque at Kheraul, Murshidabad. 900 H. 



(1594-5 A.D.). Three bays in the back wall; 

 three small domes over the corridor. 



(7) Rukn Khan's mosque at Devikot, Dinajpur. 



918 H. (1512 A.D.). Hall 26'- 10" sq. with walls 

 5''9" thick ; one niche highly ornamented ; domes 

 gone : the lower part of the wall of coarse grey 

 stone. 



The mosque at Molla Simla (No. I) has not been described 

 tfstiisa; I-™ before. The place is three quarter of & 



Molla Simla Mosque. ., ., » r xl . .. XT u 



mile south of the new station JNasibpur 

 in the Tarakeswar branch line of the East Indian Railway. 

 The building stands close to the Sarasvati river. It must have 

 been built at a time when the place flourished as a ban- 

 dar (port), having been situated on the junction of the Saras- 

 vati with some large creek of the Hugli river. Excavations 

 now and then bring to light thin bricks of the old time and 

 remains of masonry platforms. 



The mosque has lost its inscription, if any. It was repaired 

 from time to time, but the general plan does not appear 

 to have been materially changed. In front of the mosque, i.e., 

 to its east, is the tomb of the saint Shah Anwar Kuli Halibi ; 

 and over the doorway of the latter is fixed an Arabic^ inscrip- 

 tion recording the erection of a mosque in 777 H. (1475 AJX . 



Blochmann takes this elate to be that of the present one. Archi- 

 tecturally, however, the existing mosque belongs to a group, 

 which were built only within a limited time, 865 to Ditf H. ; 

 and no details can be found to antedate it by nearly a century. 

 Traditions, curiously enough, postdate its 



According to local traditions, the mosque was built by a 



1001 



merchant. 



irasvat 



to be drowned ; he prayed to the local saint for help, ,u\d the 





