Adina Mosque
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The Adina Mosque is a historical mosque located in Pandua, a town in the Malda district of West Bengal, India. It was the largest structure of its kind in the Indian subcontinent as an imperial mosque
Exterior façade of the mosque
Adina Mosque Lotus decoration in Basalt
Adina Mosque's tympanum decorated with terracotta
Kirtimukha at Adina Mosque
Indo-Islamic architecture
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Indo-Islamic architecture is the architecture of the Indian subcontinent produced by and for Islamic patrons and purposes. Despite an initial Arab presence in Sindh, the development of Indo-Islamic ar
Adina Mosque
…in Jhenaidah, and the Bara Azina site in Bagerhat, where Azina possibly represents a local corruption of Adina. The design of the mosque incorporated Bengali, Arab, Persian and Byzantine architecture. It was built with rubble masonry that was covered with brick, stone, coatings of stucco, plaster, concrete…
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