Baitul Mukarram National Mosque. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Baitul Mukarram Mosque

Baitul Mukarram Mosque is the National Mosque of Bangladesh. Its development started on 27 January 1960 and has been going on in stages. In the last part of the 1950s Dhaka became quickly. Abdul Latif Ibrahim Bawani initially concocted assembling an excellent mosque with a huge limit. The 'Baitul Mukarram Mosque Society' was shaped in 1959 to work with the venture. Land was dispensed for the mosque complex at the gathering point of Old and New Dhaka. The site was likewise in closeness to the focal business locale of the city. Engineer T Abdul Hussain Thariani was charged to plan the mosque complex. The arrangement included shops, workplaces, libraries and stopping regions inside the complex.The plan of the mosque mirrors the engineering of the period as can be seen from the utilization of a white and nearly block structure for the fundamental structure. A Mosque without a vault over the top of its fundamental petition lobby probably been a special trial. The principle building is eight celebrated and 30.18 meter high starting from the earliest stage. As indicated by the first arrangement, the fundamental passageway of the mosque was to be on the eastern side. The shahan on the east is 2694.19 square meter with bathing space on its south and north sides. The two shallow domed passageway porticoes repay the shortfall of a vault on the primary structure, one on the south, and the other on the north. The height of these porticoes comprises of three horseshoe formed curves, the center of which is greater than the rest. Two decks guarantee that enough light and air enter the supplication hall.The space of the fundamental petition lobby is 2463.51 square meter with a mezzanine floor of 170.94 square meter at the eastern side. The corridor is encircled by verandas on three of its sides. The mihrab of the corridor is rectangular rather than semi-roundabout. 

Inordinate ornamentation is kept away from all through the mosque, since limiting ornamentation is run of the mill of present day engineering. As per Thariani's unique arrangement, the minar was an isolates structure on the south side of the primary structure. Be that as it may, two new minars had been built by another arrangement. 

The Baitul Mukarram mosque is current in its structural style. However, it has not disposed of conventional standards of mosque design. It has discovered its position in the hearts of the Muslims due to the likeness of its structure to the renowned Kaba at Mecca.

Baitul Mukarram, additionally spelled as Baytul Mukarrom (Arabic: بيت المكرّم‎; Bengali: বায়তুল মোকাররম; The Holy House) is the National Mosque of Bangladesh. Situated at the focal point of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, the mosque was finished in 1968.It has a limit of 42,000+. 

The mosque has a few current design highlights while simultaneously it safeguards the conventional standards of Mughal engineering which has for quite a while been prevailing in the Indian sub-continent.[citation needed] Baitul Mukarram's huge block shape was designed according to that of the Ka'abah at Mecca making it a recognizable construction not at all like some other mosque in Bangladesh. 

Outside plan

The mosque is on an exceptionally high stage. The Baitul Mukarram National Mosque's structure is eight celebrated and 99 feet high from the beginning. As per the first arrangement, the primary passage of the mosque was to be on the eastern side. The 'shaan' on the east is 29,000 square feet with bathing space on its south and north sides. Bathing or Wu'du Place reserved a significant part when the Baitul Mukarram was started. The shortfall of an arch on the principle building is repaid by the two shallow domed passageway porticoes, one on the south, and the other on the north. The tallness of these porticoes comprises of three hare's foot molded curves, the center of which is greater than the rest. 

Inside plan 

Two porches (roofless internal patio) guarantee that enough light and air enter the petition corridor of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque. The supplication niché of the lobby is rectangular rather than semi-round. Inordinate ornamentation is kept away from all through the mosque, since limiting ornamentation is commonplace of present day engineering.

The mosque complex was planned by planner, Abdulhusein M. Thariani. In 1959, proprietor of then Bawany Jute Mills, Haji Abdul Latif Bawany proposed to Major General Omrao Khan, then, at that point military manager of East Pakistan, of building a grande mosque in Dhaka. Omrao Khan consented to help on building such mosque. Same year, 'Baitul Mukarram mosque board of trustees' had been set up and 8.30 section of land of land between new Dhaka and old Dhaka had been picked. Around then, there was a huge lake in present mosque's area. It was known as 'Paltan lake. The lake was topped off and on 27 January 1960 then leader of Pakistan Ayub Khan initiated the work. Petition God for first time occurred on Friday, 25 January 1963. 

The arrangement included shops, workplaces, libraries and stopping regions inside the complex. However there has been a custom of vault mosque for Muslim, this structure didn't keep up with the standard of conventional mosque in that time. A Mosque without an arch over the top of its fundamental supplication corridor probably been an exceptional analysis. The mosque was fabricated when the nation was the Part of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. in 2008 the mosque was broadened, financed by a gift from the Saudi government.