691 CE. Perhaps the most established Mosque in the world. The Mosque in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh.
There is no question about the date that development work on this exceptional mosque, that interfaces directly back to the most punctual long periods of Islam in East Asia, was finished. A fine piece of earthenware block, presently, at long last, in Tajhat Palace exhibition hall in Rangpur is enscribed with a Sura, and the date of 69 get-togethers passing, in 632 CE, of the Holy Prophet himself.
The area of the ruin, that was uncovered a few years prior from wilderness excess, is, maybe, obvious.
At that point, the thriving City territories of North Bengal, like what are currently known as Mahasthangarh, Paharpur and Bhitagahr, were focuses of the Silk exchange that keeps on prospering the district today. They were near the course of a portion of the old exchange bands courses to China.
Following the lower regions of the Himalayas, the land course proceeds through what is currently Assam, and across towards China; an elective course, via land similarly as the incomparable Brahmahputra stream which prompts the Bay of Bengal, and the eastern Coast waterway ports of Bangladesh, like Chittagong, Ramu, and Cox bazar.
Whichever way would take the explorers near Lalmonirhat. The other option, the ocean course around Indian land mass was dependent upon the occasional breezes; it was, by the by, likewise much utilized. For sure, the early Muslim people group in Kerala dates from right off the bat in the time of Islam, maybe even the lifetime of the Holy Prophet; and there are recorded arriving by Muslim merchants on the east seaboard of Bangladesh, additionally at that period.
The incredible alluvial fields of Bangladesh, with the yearly flooding of the deltaic waters of extraordinary waterways like Ganges and Brahmaputra, are just leisurely uncovering their secret privileged insights to archeologists. What’s more, this disclosure came, rather, to locals in a distant local area. To the extent we know, regardless of the undeniable interest in the revelation, there has, truth be told, been no proper unearthing at the site.
All things considered, the actual locals have developed another structure over the old that they have, in an awkward way, opened to see. They, obviously, feel the feeling of association with the soonest history of their confidence that numerous others in their area didn’t share; they basically plundered the site of the additional intriguing curios, including the date engraving which it took senior nearby authority’s strain to get put in Tajhat.
There is fine brickwork, made of the trademark level, square, earthenware blocks that are a component of all high status structures of the period. Over that brickwork, the nearby individuals have stored free stones and bits of block in a blameless endeavor at some type of remaking. In any case, more noteworthy, by a wide margin, is their assurance that this fortune ought not be lost once more!
All of which could, in some action, change the historical backdrop of Islam in this wonderful country, with its distinctive foundation in the three extraordinary religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, which is, today, obviously, the greater part religion of the country. Therefore, alone, maybe, this mosque bears further examination. However at that point, as a particularly old structure, by its own doing, it merits better.