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Mosques completed in the 1670s
Chawk Mosque, DhakaThe Chawkbazar Shahi Mosque stands as a singular anomaly in the history of Mughal architecture, distinguished by a minaret painted in the colors of a rainbow.
Badshahi MosqueThe sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb chose Lahore as the site for a new mosque, yet he was not a major patron of art and architecture like his predecessors.
Shahbaz Khan MosqueHazi Khwaja Shahbaz Khan was not a ruler or a general, yet his name is forever etched into the skyline of Dhaka through a structure he commissioned in 1679.