Visiting Southern Bangladesh

From Dhaka, we traveled south to work at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bagerhat, known for the many finely made Islamic brick monuments that continue to be places of faith and pilgrimage today. Due to the low-lying topography of Bangladesh, the majority of the country is threatened with rising sea levels and increasing frequency of tropical storms. In Bagerhat, the freshwater is slightly brackish due to saltwater infiltration, and this salt in the groundwater has a negative impact on the brick monuments.

Climbing to the top of the Chunakhola mosque in Bagerhat

The villagers came to hold the not so sturdy bamboo ladder while we climbed up with the equipment

The 60 Dome Mosque or Shait Gombuj Masjid

Despite the name of the mosque there are actually over eighty domes on the mosque.