Sixty Dome Mosque
The largest historic mosque in Bangladesh, with a vast prayer hall supported by tall stone columns and many small domes. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Mosque City of Bagerhat.
Bagerhat
The Sixty Dome Mosque, a many-domed building from the 15th century, is the best-known sight of this UNESCO-listed historic mosque city.
Attractive locations
Nine Dome Mosque
A small, graceful brick mosque with nine domes, set amid trees in the historic Mosque City of Bagerhat. It reflects the early Islamic architecture of Bengal.
Mausoleum of Khan Jahan Ali
The tomb of the saint and governor who built the Mosque City, beside a large pond with crocodiles. It is a place of pilgrimage and a peaceful corner of the UNESCO-listed site.
Ten Dome Mosque
A small historic brick mosque with domes in the Mosque City of Bagerhat. It is one of several modest buildings that show how the town's early Muslim community lived and worshipped.
Singar Mosque
A small single-domed brick mosque in the Mosque City of Bagerhat, easy to visit along with the larger mosques nearby.
Mosque City of Bagerhat
The group of fifteenth-century brick mosques and tombs around Bagerhat built under Khan Jahan Ali, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Sixty Dome Mosque is its largest building.
Airports
Barisal Airport BZL
It is about 57 km in a straight line from Bagerhat.
Jessore Airport JSR
It is about 85 km in a straight line from Bagerhat.
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport DAC
It is about 147 km in a straight line from Bagerhat.
Scams and safe taxis
Taxi and scam advice for this country is on the Bangladesh page
Weather by month
Each month shows its average temperature in °C and its mm of rain per month.
- Jan18.0 °C10 mm
- Feb22.7 °C23 mm
- Mar27.5 °C40 mm
- Apr30.0 °C91 mm
- May30.0 °C225 mm
- Jun28.9 °C383 mm
- Jul28.2 °C535 mm
- Aug28.0 °C419 mm
- Sep27.7 °C318 mm
- Oct26.2 °C231 mm
- Nov22.5 °C48 mm
- Dec18.7 °C16 mm
Driest months: Jan, Feb, Dec. Wettest months: Jun, Jul, Aug.
Costs
Prices here are about 25% of US prices (World Bank, 2025). This compares a country's overall prices, not the cost of a trip.
Who can help
Emergency
999 for police, ambulance and fire.
local government
Tourist Police Bangladesh
Helps with: Police unit set up to give security to tourists and protect tourist spots. Its website has a tourist helpline page and a 'Please Help Me' button item. Its phone numbers could not be confirmed here.
Who qualifies: Tourists, local and foreign, at tourist spots in Bangladesh.
local government
National emergency service 999
Helps with: Bangladesh's national emergency service number, shown on the Bangladesh Tourism Board site together with 333 for government information and services and 102 for the fire service hotline.
Who qualifies: Anyone in Bangladesh facing an emergency, including visitors.
Phone: 999
local government
Bangladesh Tourism Board
Helps with: Bangladesh's national tourism organisation. Its contact page gives an office address in Dhaka, a phone number and an email address for tourism enquiries.
Who qualifies: Anyone visiting Bangladesh or planning a trip there.
Phone: +88-02-41024234
Email: [email protected]
Address: Paryatan Bhaban, E-5 C/1, West Agargaon, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Administrative Area, Dhaka 1207
ngo
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society
Helps with: Bangladesh's national Red Crescent society. Its headquarters in Dhaka lists a main phone line, a hotline open 9 am to 4 pm and a blood hotline.
Who qualifies: People in Bangladesh who need its humanitarian, disaster or blood services.
Phone: +88 02 48310188
Address: 684-686 Red Crescent Sarak, Bara Maghbazar, Dhaka 1217
un agency
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Bangladesh
Helps with: The UN migration agency, working in Bangladesh since 1998 on migration management, crisis response and international cooperation. It is based at UN House in Dhaka.
Who qualifies: Migrants and partners working on migration in Bangladesh. It is not a help service for ordinary tourists.
Phone: +88 02 55051751
Address: UN House, House 1, Road 86 & 88, Gulshan 2, Dhaka 1212