Chunakhola - Mosque City of Bagerhat, Bangladesh
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.26301/74v4-k412 | |
| Project Name | Chunakhola - Mosque City of Bagerhat |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Status | Published |
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| Spatial Data | Download (Links to all available data types will be emailed) |
| Data Bounds (approx.) |
Data Types |
| Data Type |
Size |
Device Name |
Device Type |
| LiDAR - Terrestrial | 7.92 GB | Faro Focus S350 | Phase Based Laser Scanner |
| Photogrammetry - Terrestrial | 14.9 GB | Nikon D810 | DSLR |
| Photogrammetry - Aerial | 8.24 GB | DJI Phantom 4 Pro | Drone |
| Background |
| Site Description | Located at the meeting point of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, The Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat was founded by the general Khan Jahan in the 15th Century and was known as Khalifatabad. Extending over 50 square kilometers, the city contains some of the most significant buildings of the initial period of Muslim architecture in Bengal. The city was home to over 300 mosques, bridges, public buildings, mausoleums, water tanks composed of baked brick. The city is notable for the high concentration of finely made religious monuments, spatial planning and lack of fortifications. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 the remaining monuments exhibit a unique architectural style known as Khan-e-Jahan. Khan Jahan is revered as a sufi saint today and the mosques are still active and remain a place of pilgrimage. |
| Project Description | In April 2019, CyArk traveled to the historic mosque city of Bagerhat to document three monuments at the UNESCO World Heritage site. Selected in conjunction with the Department of Archaeology of Bangladesh, the field team mapped the Shait Gombuj Masjid or sixty domed mosque, the 9 domed mosque and the single domed Chunakhola mosque. The three sites were documented to provide an accurate baseline of the monuments condition that can be used to analyze the water infiltration going on at the site and plan conservation efforts.Following the field work, CyArk and ICOMOS led a workshop for representatives from the Department of Archaeology, Khulna University the United Nations Development Program and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Dhaka. During the workshop discussion were held around climate change impacts to Bangladesh and the need for more research on how the impacts will manifest on the heritage structures. |
| Collection Date | 2019-04-23 to 2019-05-03 |
| Publication Date | 2020-06-22 |
| License Type | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Citation |
| CyArk 2020: Chunakhola - Mosque City of Bagerhat - LiDAR - Terrestrial , Photogrammetry - Terrestrial , Photogrammetry - Aerial , LSP Files . Collected by CyArk . Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.26301/74v4-k412 |
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