Adina Mosque
Once the largest mosque in the subcontinent, built for the Bengal Sultanate at Pandua, with its builder buried inside it.
- Where
- Maldah, West Bengal, India
- Grade
- National monument
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 5 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 25.1526, 88.1642
Get the Adina Mosque stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Adina Mosque. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your West Bengal volume with your photos and a note.
Near Adina Mosque
Gour 19 km
A sultanate capital gone back to fields and brick.
Farakka Barrage 45 km
A barrage across the Ganga in Murshidabad, built through the 1960s, eighteen kilometres short of the Bangladesh border.
Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary 54 km
Kulik, near Raiganj, where a hundred and sixty four kinds of bird have been counted.
Maluti Temples 86 km
Seventy two terracotta temples left of an original one hundred and eight, in a village of a few hundred people.
Vikramaśīla University 90 km
The ruins of a Buddhist university founded by Dharmapala, ranked in its own day alongside Nalanda.
Vikramshila 91 km
A Pala university that rivalled Nalanda, destroyed around 1200, its central stupa now excavated and squared.
Jalalgarh Fort 103 km
A mud and brick fort losing to the forest.
Hazarduari Palace 108 km
A thousand doors, nine hundred of them false.
More national monuments in West Bengal
Questions
Where is Adina Mosque?
Adina Mosque is in Maldah, West Bengal. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Gour (19 km), Farakka Barrage (45 km), Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary (54 km).
How do I get the Adina Mosque stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Adina Mosque and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your West Bengal volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Adina Mosque before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your West Bengal volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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