The beautiful mosque built at a cost of Tk 30 crore opens in Sirajganj

>> It took four years to build the mosque
>> The height of the 11-story minaret under construction on both sides is 110 feet
>> High quality marble stone and wood carvings have been interesting

‘Al-Aman Bahela Khatun Jame Mosque’ built in beautiful architectural style. This mosque is located in the Belkuchi municipality on the Sirajganj-Enayetpur highway. Anyone who sees the mosque building for the first time will feel it, as if it is a wonderful combination of the creator with the creation. This beautiful mosque, one of the best in the country, will be inaugurated on Friday (April 2) with Friday prayers. Local MP Abdul Momin Mandal, the administration, people’s representatives and eminent academics are expected to be present at that time.

Speaking with mosque officials, it emerged that in September 2016, Alhaj Mohammad Ali Sarkar, an accomplished industrialist from the village of Mukundagati, built an ‘Al-Aman Bahela Khatun Jame Mosque’ complex in the name of his son Al -Aman and his mother Bahela Khatun on 2.5 bighas of land adjacent to the Belkuchi Municipal Building The first stone of the construction site was laid. He built this striking mosque at a cost of more than Tk 30 crore with his own funds.

The mosque took four years to build. Since the beginning, an average of 45 workers have worked every day. The Chairman of the Rahmat Group, Alhaj Mohammad Ali Sarkar, has been building the Bahela Khatun Eye Hospital together with the mosque complex and has been providing services to needy patients in the area for a long time. However, the humanitarian industrialist died in August last year. Later, his family completed the construction of the mosque.

Abdul Mannan, one of the mosque’s keepers, and Sujan Mahmud, a devotee, told Jago News: “There is a huge gray dome in this mosque. The floor is covered with pillars and white marble tiles. On the third floor, several flashing chandeliers have been installed elsewhere, including one brought from China, attached to the dome. The equivalent 11 story (110 ft) tall minaret under construction on both sides. Green grass planned in the yard. Colorful lighting creates a different atmosphere at night. All in all a very quiet environment. ‘

Alamgir Hossain, who is in charge of the construction of the mosque (administrative officer of Bahela Khatun Hospital), said that he has his own accommodation in a 10-story building next to the mosque for imams and muezzins. There is a library. Along the two steps at the entrance to the mosque, there is a system of ablutions with self-filtered water. Aesthetic design work has been done to make the various locations of the mosque attractive with the wood carvings including high quality marble stones brought from Italy and India. Especially the two high stairs in front of the mosque and the exceptional entrance and the main gate are a sight to behold. Here, about five thousand devotees can perform prayers together.

He said: ‘On the night of Shabe Barat, people from many parts of the district came here to visit the mosque with prayers and supererogatory worship. At night, the mosque facilities have a different paradise atmosphere. No one can believe it without seeing it with their own eyes! ‘

A family member of the late Alhaj Mohammad Ali Sarkar, the builder of the mosque, who did not want to be identified, told Jago News: “We have worked to build the house of Allah. We don’t want publicity here. People pray in peace, that is our peace. But it would have been better if Alhaj Mohammad Ali Sarkar, the dreamer of building a mosque, had survived and been able to offer prayers here. This is our imperfection. May Allah make you an inhabitant of Paradise.

Yusuf Dewan Raju / SR / GKS