Place · Nawabi mosque · India
Katra Masjid, Murshidabad
Also known as Katra Masjid, Murshid Quli Khan, Murshid Quli Khan (tomb), Murshidabad
The 1723 Katra Masjid at Murshidabad in West Bengal — the great congregational mosque built by Murshid Quli Khan, founder of the Bengal Nawab-ate (ruled 1704-1727 as Mughal Diwan then independent Nawab). The mosque was built as a Mughal-Turkic-style brick mosque with four corner minarets (two of which collapsed in the 1897 Assam earthquake) and a central prayer hall for 2,000 worshippers. Murshid Quli Khan was buried under the stairway at the mosque's eastern entrance by his own wish — the only Bengal Nawab buried in a position of ritual humility, where every worshipper's foot would touch his grave as they entered the mosque. The current structure is 1723 original with partial 1897 earthquake restoration. ASI protection since 1917. UNESCO tentative list since 2010.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
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- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.190, 88.268
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- Site withinMurshidabad
Katra Masjid, Murshidabad sits inside Murshidabad and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Katra Masjid”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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