DARASBARI MOSQUE 1479 A.D.

The Darasbari Mosque is located in the southern suburb of the old capital Gaur, presently under the district of Chapainawabganj in Bangladesh. I. Bakhsh discovered an inscription near the Darasbari mosque, recording the erection of the mosque by Sultan Yusuf Shah in the year 884A.H./1479-80 A.D. (Hasan 1980:157). This Friday mosque belongs to rectangular shaped plan type with a foreroom and is the earliest example of this type. It is severely damaged and the entire roof, corner turrets and the foreroom have disappeared.