Late Middle Ages · South Asia · Culture

1414

Bengali Sultan Builds Adina Mosque at Pandua

1414

Sultan Sikandar Shah of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty completed the Adina Mosque at Pandua in Bengal, one of the largest mosques ever built on the Indian subcontinent. Its vast prayer hall, modeled on the Great Mosque of Damascus but built with local brick and terracotta, could hold thousands of worshippers. Bengal's Islamic architecture was developing a distinctive identity independent of Delhi's influence.

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Before and after in South Asia

Before: 1412: Vijayanagara Empire Consolidates the Deccan
After: 1430: Vijayanagara's Devaraya II Crowned

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1410: Jean Fouquet Born in Tours
After: 1416: Poggio Rediscovers Lucretius

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.