Adina Mosque — Wikipedia

The Adina Mosque (Bengali: আদিনা মসজিদ) 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 of the Bengal Sultanate, built during the reign of Sikandar Shah, who was later buried inside. The vast architecture resembles the hypostyle of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, a style that was used during the introduction of Islam in new areas. The early Bengal Sultanate harbored imperial ambitions after having defeated the Delhi Sultanate twice in 1353 and 1359 during...