Mosques

 Mosques

Dhaka is better known as a city of Mosques.The number of mosques in Dhaka city old and new-would be more than one thousand.The only surviving monument of the pre mughal period in Dhaka is Binat Bibi's mosque(1457) in narinda.Other monuments of the sultanate period around Dhaka are the single-dome Goaldi mosque(1493-1519) and mosque of Fateh Shah at mograpara(1484)
Baitul Mukarram,the national mosque in the down town area is the forerunner of a number of strikingly beautiful modern mosques.It is modelled after the retangular shape of the holy Kaaba in Mecca.