page_title: Choto Sona Mosque
section_title: Ornamentation
hierarchical_section_title: Choto Sona Mosque / Ornamentation
caption_attribution_description: English: Side View
context_page_description: Choto Shona Mosque is located in Chapai Nawabganj district of Bangladesh. The mosque is situated about 3 kilometres south of the Kotwali Gate and 0.5 kilometres to the south-east of the Mughal Tahakhana complex in the Firozpur Quarter.
context_section_description: The most important ornamentation of the mosque is to be seen on the frontal courtyard of the mosque, only recently excavated. The ornamentation consists of mosaic roundels in blue and white colours of variegated design. The mosaic design is not in situ, but a roundel has been composed by the excavators, putting the flakes in their appropriate places and exhibiting it in a room attached to the guesthouse nearby. At a distance of 14.5 m to the east of the gateway there is a stone platform containing two tomb sarcophagi inscribed with verses from the Quran and some names of God. It is unknown who is buried here. Cunningham suggests these are the tombs of Wali Muhammad, the builder of the mosque, and his father Ali.
caption: Side view of Sona Mosjid
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