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At once it became the capital of Bengal and remained so until 1702 when Kartalab Khan, the favourite Diwan of the Emperor Aurangzeb' for the eastern provinces, quarrelled with Prince 'Aztmu'sh-Sha. n, the then viceroy, and traps• ferred the .
) by Hajji Shah Baz, a merchant, durin~ the viceroyalty of Prince Muhammad A'azam2 (the· third son of Aurangzeb), It is a fairly large mosque possessing three domes and measur• ing 68 by 26 feet.
Towards the eastern side of the courtyard of this mosque stands the tomb of Hajjt Shah Ba. z surmounted by a beautiful cupola and measuring 26 feet square.
· The total numerical value of all the Persian words uttered by Gabriel is equivalent to the number representing the year of the construction of the mosque.
This mosque was built by Nawab Shaista Khan 2 along with his palace and was the first of a number of structures .
This mosque is situated about a quarter of a mile to· the north-west of the (Mughal) Fort at Lal Bagh (an important locality towards the western part of the city) · in the- quarter known as Atashkha.
: · It appears from the inscription on the mosque that it was built by one Khan Muhammad Murda, who was an ?fficer in the then pr~vinci,.
This mosque was built by Amtru'l-Umara Nawab Shaista Khan in the year 1086 A.
This mosque was erected before the· foundation of · Dacca as the capital of Bengal.