Chini Mosque

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Chini Mosque
চিনি মসজিদ
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Branch/tradition	Sunni
Location
Location	Saidpur, Rangpur, Bangladesh
Geographic coordinates	25°47′39″N 88°53′25″E / 25.7943°N 88.8903°E / 25.7943; 88.8903
Architecture
Type	Mosque

Chini Mosque (Bengali: চিনি মসজিদ, Urdu: چنی مسجد) is located in Saidpur city of Nilphamari district in Rangpur Division of Bangladesh. The mosque is also known as Glass Mosque.^[1] The construction of the mosque was started in 1863 by Haji Bakir Ali Ahmed and was completed within a year as a little prayer house. Later Wazir Ali Ahmed, a descendant of the founders family started the extension and modification work of this mosque. After that, in the middle of the 20th century the sons of the late Wazir Ali Ahmed, Mofizuddin Ahmed and Shafiuddin Ahmed (well known as cloth merchants) continued the beautification work of the mosque. At the time the ceramics pieces were brought from Kolkata as there was no ceramic factory in East Pakistan/Bengal (present Bangladesh).^{[citation needed]}

To decorate Chini Masjid, 283 pieces of Cross Marble stones were used. Along with Cross Marble stones, 25 tons of small chips of Chinaware-plate and pieces of glass (both color and non-color) porcelain were also used.^[2] This mosque has 27 towers from which 5 towers are still incomplete.^[3]

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