Place · national mosque · Bangladesh
Baitul Mukarram, Dhaka
Also known as Baitul Mukarram, Baitul-Mukarram, National Mosque of Bangladesh
The Bangladeshi national mosque in central Dhaka, designed by Abdul Hussain Thariani in 1960 and completed in stages through the 1960s and 1970s — a modernist concrete cube deliberately echoing the Kaaba at Mecca, placed at the heart of Dhaka's commercial district on a seven-acre site. The mosque holds about 42,000 worshippers in its prayer hall and courtyards and is the tenth-largest mosque in the world. The 1971 Liberation War interrupted the completion; the mosque's final galleries were added in the 1980s. The Baitul Mukarram is Bangladesh's symbolic Islamic civic centre, used for all state Islamic occasions including Eid prayers attended by the Prime Minister.
- Date
- 1960–1968
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Patron dynasty
- Bangladesh
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.732, 90.413
Connections (1)
- Site withinDhaka
The Baitul Mukarram national mosque of Bangladesh sits in central Dhaka's commercial district, at the heart of the modern capital — the state Islamic civic centre around which the national Eid prayers and official Islamic occasions are staged. The 1960s construction and 1970s completion ran through the 1971 Liberation War and the mosque's final galleries were added under the Bangladesh state after independence.