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Dargahbari a complex of religious buildings, situated at village Sadipur (Nagar Sadipur) to the eastern side of Damdama, and to the adjacent north of Mograpara Bazar in sonargaon. The complex comprises an extensive area consisting of an open courtyard, the khanqah, the tomb complex, a medieval mosque, a graveyard, ruins of old buildings, and a big pond on the eastern extremity.



At the entrance of the compound there is a dilapidated building known as the Nahbat Khana. A modern building on the southern side houses the Khanqah. On the north of the Khanqah are three tombs- the western one is said to belong to ibrahim danishmand, the middle one to Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf and his father Shah Kamel, and the one on its eastern side purportedly contains the mortal remains of the wife of Shaikh Yusuf.

There are a few graves on the western part of the complex. Opposite, on the eastern side, is a walled-up graveyard containing six graves of which one with the red marked top is presumed to be the tomb of sharfuddin abu tawwamah. On the northern side of the tomb complex stands Fath Shah's Mosque (1484). At the back of the mosque, a little further to the northwest, is a dilapidated two-storyed building with underground rooms (chilla-kotha). Remains of construction at the ground level on the western side of these buildings testify to earlier building activities in the area. The Tahwil (treasury) building in the compound does not exist now. At present modern houses fill the grounds to the north of the mosque.

The present Dargahbari had been the Khanqah of sufi saints like Shah Ibrahim Danishmand, Shah Muhammad Kamel, and Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf. It appears to be the site of the khanqah and madrasa of Maulana Sharfuddin Abu Tawwamah, representing the seat of Islamic learning during the last quarter of the thirteenth century. The complex is being maintained by the descendants of Shah Ibrahim Danishmand. [Muazzam Hussain Khan]



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