Darasbari Mosque
Darasbari Mosque (দারসবাড়ি মসজিদ) is a historic former mosque and now an architectural monument in Shibganj Upazila, Chapai Nawabganj District, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh. It was built in 1479 CE (Hijri year 884) by the Iliyas Shahi sultan Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah.
The mosque sits about 1 kilometer southwest of the Kotwali Gate and 500 meters west of the Choto Sona Mosque, in the historic city area once known as Gaur-Lakhnauti. By 2003, it had no roof and the verandah had fallen.
Architectural highlights: it is brick-built with stone pillars. Exterior dimensions are about 34 by 20.6 meters; interior is about 30.3 by 11.7 meters. The roof features a verandah and char-chala vaults. The prayer room is entered from the east through seven pointed arches from the verandah. The southern wall has three pointed arches, and the northern wall has two. The qiblah wall contains eleven mihrabs, two of which belong to a royal gallery upstairs. An Arabic inscription quotes Quran 72 and a Hadith about building a mosque. Terracotta plaques ornament parts of the western and southern outer walls. It is currently preserved as an architectural monument and is noted as the third largest mosque in the historic Gaur-Lakhnauti area, after the Bara Sona Masjid and the Guntanta mosque.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 02:18 (CET).