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Tribeni
This mosque and attached dargah, built by Zafar Khan Ghazi, is situated at Tribeni in Hooghly district. It is considered to be amongst the earliest surviving Muslim monuments in Bengal. An inscription dates the mosque to 1298 i.e. within a century of Bhaktiyar Khalji's sudden occupation of Bengal in 1205, and within 20 years of Zafar Khan's occupation of this region in 1267. In some ways the structure represents a transition from stone post-and-lintel temples of the Pala-Senas to the brick dome-and-arch structures favoured by Bengali Muslim rulers. Here, stone columns and bases (probably reused from temples) support brick and sandstone arches and domes.