The most wonderful and largest brick mosque in Bangladesh is the Shait Gombuj Mosque. It is located in Bagerhat district. The World Heritage team of UNESCO inscribed Bagerhat in the World Heritage record and it got the status of the second World Heritage site in Bangladesh after Paharpur. As there were a large number of mosques, the Historian, a French monthly termed it a city of mosques. The earliest torchbearer of Islam in the south, he came from Delhi to settle a Muslim colony in this swampland in the early-15th century AD. The natural beauty of the area had such an effect upon him that he spent the rest of his life there. Record says that he constructed about 360 mosques and as many freshwater tanks, as well as palaces, mausoleums and other public buildings in a very short space of time.
At sunrise when the rays of the sun go through the eastern entrances, the interior comes to life. There is slight adornment to this building other than the carved stone decoration to the central mihrab at the western end of the prayer hall. The exterior facades, with a little 'battered' walls, have discernible curving cornices a concession to the local style.
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