Galakata Mosque
The Galakata Mosque is a historical Sultanate period mosque located 100 meters east of Jorbangla Mosque at the village of Barobazar, in Jhenaidah District. The name might have been derived from the mosque's earlier ruined state. The ruins was excavated in 1992-1993 and completely rebuilt with six domes in Khan Jahan style. Arabic and Persian remainings date the mosque to AH, during Mahmud Shah's reign.
Architecture
The mosque assumed to be built in late-ourteenth or mid-fifteenth century, measures internally with thick walls. It is a rectangular structure featuring engaged hexagonal corner towers on circular bases, which have been reconstructed.The mosque has three entrances. The interior is divided by two stone columns into two bays and three aisles, forming six square bays, each covered by a dome. The east wall has three entrances, the central one being the largest at wide, flanked by two 97 cm wide entrances. Opposite these, three semicircular mihrabs are set in the west wall. The north and south walls each have two wide entrances, blocked with brick jalis.
The stone columns have square bases with carved merlons, transitioning to octagonal sections with decorative triangles, and dodecagonal main shafts adorned with chain and bell motifs. The mihrabs feature rectangular frames with merlons; the central mihrab includes terracotta lotus scroll decoration and a hanging motif in the niche. Side mihrabs have mesh frames with niches decorated by alternating four-leafed and plain bands.