List of Masjids in Bengal which was built by destroying Hindu temples

LIST OF HINDU TEMPLES DESTROYED AND CONVERTED TO MOSQUES IN BENGAL BY

MUSLIMS

We give below, state-wise and district-wise, the particulars of Muslim monuments which
stand on the sites and/or have been built with the materials of Hindu temples, and which
we wish to recall as witnesses to the role of Islam as a religion and the character of Muslim
rule in medieval India. The list is the result of a preliminary survey. Many more Muslim
monuments await examination. Local traditions which have so far been ignored or
neglected, have to be tapped on a large scale.

We have tried our best to be exact in respect of locations, names and dates of the
monuments mentioned. Even so, some mistakes and confusions may have remained. It is
not unoften that different sources provide different dates and names for the same
monument. Many Muslim saints are known by several names, which create confusion in
identifying their mazars or dargahs. Some districts have been renamed or newly, created
and a place which was earlier under one district may have been included in another. We
shall be grateful to readers who point out these mistakes so that they can be corrected in
our major study. This is only a brief summary.

Sita Ram Goel

It should be kept in mind that the list below doesn’t include all the temples destroyed by
Muslims and which were converted to mosques. The below is the list of mosques and
Darghas where evidences exists of having been made after destroying the temples at
these locations. In many mosques, Muslim rulers were able to eradicate all signs of
temples, and hence not given in below list.

Anyone is free to visit the below list of mosques and see the remnants and materials of
Hindu temples used in their construction. Archaeological Survey of India should conduct
an excavation of below mosques to find out more about the ancient temples in these
locations and possible mass graves around the mosque sites.

I. BANKURA DISTRICT

Lokpura
1. Mazar of Ghazi Ismail. Converted Venugopala temple.

II. BARISAL DISTRICT

Kasba
2. Masjid. Temple site.
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III. BIRBHUM DISTRICT

Moregram
3. Mazar of Sayyid Baba. Temple materials used.

Patharchapuri
4. Maza of Data, or Mahbub Sahib. Temple site.

Rajnagar
5. Several Old Masjids. Temple sites.

Sakulipur
6. Jami Masjid. Temple site.

Siyan
7. Dargah of Makhdum Shah (1221). Materials of many temples used.

IV. BOGRA DISTRICT

Mahasthan
8. Dargah and Masjid of Shah Sultan Mahiswar. Stands on the ruins of a temple.
9. Majid on Siladevi Ghat. Temple materials used.

V. BURDWAN DISTRICT

Inchalabazar
10. , Masjid (1703). Temple site.

Kasba
11. Raja, Masjid. Temple materials used.

Kalna
12. Dargah of Shah Majlis (1491-93). Temple site.
13. ShahI Masjid (1533). Temple site.

Mangalkot
14. Jami Masjid (1523-24). Temple site.

Raikha
15. Talab-wali Masjid. Temple site.

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Suata
16. Dargah of Sayyid Shah Shahid Mahmud Bahmani. Buddhist Temple materials site.
17. Masjid (1502-02). Temple site.

VI. CALCUTTA DISTRICT

Bania Pukur
18. , Masjid built for Alaud-Din Alaul Haqq (1342). Temple materials used.

VII. CHATGAON DISTRICT

19. Dargah of Badr Makhdum. Converted Buddhist Vihara.

VIII. DACCA DISTRICT

Dacca
20. Tomb of Bibi Pari. Temple materials used.
21. Saif Khan-ki-Masjid. Converted temple.
22. Churihatta Masjid. Temple materials used.

Narayanganj
23. Qadam Rasul Masjid. Temple site.

Rampal
24. Masjid. Converted temple.
25. Dargah of Baba. Adam Shahid (1308). Temple materials used.

Sonargaon
26. Old Masjid. Temple materials used.

IX. DINAJPUR DISTRICT

Basu-Bihar
27. Two Masjids. On the ruins of a Buddhist Vihara.

Devatala
28. Dargah of Shykh Jalalud-Din Tabrizi, Suhrawardiyyia sufi credited in Muslim histories
with the destruction of many, temples. Temple site.
29. Jami Masjid (1463). VishNu Temple site.

Devikot
30. Dargah and Masjid of Pir Ataullah Shah (1203). Temple materials used.
31. Dargah of Shah Bukhari. Temple materials used.
32. Dargah of Pir Bahaud-Din. Temple materials used.
33. Dargah of Shah Sultan Pir. Temple materials used.

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Mahisantosh
34. Dargah and Masjid. On the site of a big VishNu Temple.

Nekmard
35. Mazar of Nekmard Shah. Temple site.

X. FARIDPUR DISTRICT

Faridpzir
36. Mazar of Farid Shah. Temple site.

XI. HOOGHLY DISTRICT

Jangipura
37. Mazar of Shahid Ghazi. Temple materials used.
Pandua
38. Masjid. Temple materials used.
39. Mazar of Shah Safiud-Din. Temple site.
40. Fath Minar. Temple materials used.

Santoshpur
41. Masjid near Molla Pukur (153-310). Temple site.

Satgaon
42. Jami Masjid. Temple materials used.

Tribeni
43. Zafar Khan-ki-Masjid (1298). Temple materials used.
44. Dargah of Zafar Khan. Temple materials used.
45. Masjid (1459). Temple site.

XII. HOWRAH DISTRICT

Jangalvilas
46. Pir Sahib-ki-Masjid. Converted temple.

XIII. KHULNA DISTRICT

Masjidkur
47. Shat Gumbaz. Temple materials used.
48. Mazar of Khanja Ali or Khan Jahan. Temple site.

Salkhira
49. Dargah of Mai Champa. Temple materials used.

XIV. MALDA DISTRICT

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Gangarampur
50. Dargah of Shah Ata. Siva Temple site.
51. Masjid on the river bank (1249). Temple site.

Gaur
Muslim city built on the site and with the ruins of LakshmaNavati, Hindu capital destroyed
by the Muslims at the end of the twelfth century A.D. Temple materials have been used in
the following monuments:

52. Chhoti Sona Masjid.

53. Qadam Rasul Masjid (1530)
54. Tantipara Masjid (1480)
55. Lattan Masjid (1475)
56. Badi Sona Masjid (1526)
57. Dargah of Makhadum Akhi Siraj Chishti, disciple of Nizamud-Din Awliya of Delhi (1347)
58. Darsbari or College of Theology.
59. Astana of Shah Niamatu􂀀llah.
60. Chamkatti Masjid (1459).
61. Chikka Masjid.
62. Gunmant Masjid. Converted temple.
63. Dakhil Darwaza.
64. Kotwali Darwaza.
65. Firuz Minar.
66. ChaNDipur Darwaza.
67. Baraduari Masjid.
68. Lukachuri Masjid.
69. Gumti Darwaza.

Malda
70. Jami Masjid (1566). Temple materials used.
71. Sak Mohan Masjid (1427). Temple site.

Pandua
Another Muslim city built with the ruins of LakshmaNavati. Temple materials have been
used in the following monuments.

72. Adina Masjid (1368)

73. Yaklakhi Masjid.
74. Chheh Hazari or Dargah of Nur Qutb-i-Alam (1415).
75. Bais Hazari or Khanqah of Jalalu􂀀d-Din Tabrizi (1244).
76. Sona Masjid.
77. Barn-like Masjid.
78. Qadam Rasul.

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XV. MIDNAPUR DISTRICT

Gagneswar
79. Karambera Garh Masjid (1509). Shiva Temple site.

Hijli
80. Masnad-i-Ala-ki-Masjid. Temple site.

Kesiari
81. Masjid (1622). Mahadeva Temple materials used.

Kharagpur
82. Mazar of Pir Lohani. Temple site.

XVI. MURSHIDABAD DISTRICT

Chuna Khali
83. Barbak-ki-Masjid. Temple site.

Murshidabad
Temple materials have been used in the following monuments:

84. Katra Masjid.

85. Motijhil Lake Embankments.
86. Sangi Dalan.
87. Mahal Sara􂀀.
88. Alivardi Khan-ki-Masjid.
89. Hazarduari Mahal.

Rangamati
90. Dargah on the Rakshasi DaNga. Stands on the ruins of a Buddhist Vihara.

XVII. NOAKHALI DISTRICT

Begamganj
91. Bajra Masjid. Converted temple.

XVIII. PABNA DISTRICT

Balandu
92. Madrasa. Converted Buddhist Vihara.

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XIX. RAJSHAHI DISTRICT

Bhaturia
93. Masjid. Shiva Temple materials used.

Kumarpura
94. Mazar of Mukarram Shah. Converted temple.

Kusumbha
95. Old Masjid (1490-93). Constructed entirely of temple materials.

XX. RANGPUR DISTRICT

Kamatpur
96. BaDa Dargah of Shah Ismail Ghazi. Temple site.
97. Idgah on a mound one mile away. Temple materials used.

XXI. SYLHET DISTRICT

Baniyachung
98. Famous Masjid. Temple site.

Sylhet
99. Masjid of Shah Jalal. Temple site.
100. Mazars of Shah Jalal and many of his disciples. Temple sites.

XXII. 24-PARGANAS DISTRICT

Barasat
101. Mazar of Pir Ekdil Sahib. Temple site.

Berchampa

102. Dargah of Pir Gorachand. Temple site.

EVIDENCE IS AVAILABLE THAT IN BENGAL THE ABOVE MENTIONED MOSQUES AND

DARGHAS WERE CONSTRUCTED BY DESTROYING HINDU TEMPLES. BUT IN MANY OTHER
CASES MUSLIMS SUCCEEDED IN REMOVING ALL TRACES OF TEMPLES FROM THE
MOSQUES. IN SUCH CASES ONLY AN EXCAVATION BY ASI WILL REVEAL THE DESTROYED
TEMPLES.

WHILE MUSLIMS ASK FOR REBUILDING THE ILLEGAL MOSQUE IN AYODHYA, WHY SHOULD
NOT HINDUS DEMAND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE DESTROYED TEMPLES IN INDIA?

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