Bari Masjid and Minar

This place is now a prohibited place you can't go inside it but you can't look any type of warning board. No maintenance is being maintained here.

Good historical place although ruins mainly. Minar is still in good shape

A very good historical place but currently closed for visiting.

Nice place now it is closed.

Once you reach the fair-ground, the 125 feet high Pandua Minar will surely steal your gaze. But you will be sad by the extravagantly under maintained state of the monument. The fence put by Archaeological Survey of India has been torn apart at various points to facilitate the free wandering of cattle and dry domestic clothes, as if the colossal Minar was built for this purpose only! Rising to a height of 38.10 meters, the Pandua Minar was built possibly in 1340 AD by Shah Sufiuddin as a tower of victory.nnThis brick-made minar has five storeys, diminishing in size as you go higher, with flutings in the lower three. The entrance was provided with a stone door frame flanked on either side by carved stone pillars of some Hindu temple. Visitors are not lucky enough to climb up this minar due to the rusted lock on the main entrance. I was really curious to know who actually possessed the key to that lock. I could not find anyone who could possibly quench my curiosity. After all, who needs to know everything! Adjacent to the minar, barely 50-70 metres away lies the ruins of the Mosque of Pandua, popularly known as Bari Masjid. Bari Masjid, built by Shah Safiuddin in 1300 AD, is a prototype specimen of brick-type architecture of Bengal.nnBari Masjid is a long, low building measuring 70.41 meters by 12.80 meters, having 3 aisles with 21 door openings in front and three on sides. Its roof had 63 small domes over brick arches resting on stone pillars of Hindu design. A canopied platform is an attractive feature of this monument. In my short 30 minutes stay at Pandua I could spot only a couple of tourists who were photographing those ruins with their tablet. I made my camera to toil with some quick clicks and then left the fair-ground with a faint optimism- someday, all historical monuments scattered throughout this incredible India will be taken better care by our Government.