The National Mosque of Bangladesh, begun in 1960 and completed in phases thereafter, sits between the old and new parts of Dhaka and holds up to 40,000 worshippers — one of the ten largest mosques in the world by capacity. Unusually for a mosque of this scale, the main prayer hall has no dome. The architect T. Abdul Hussain Thariani instead modelled the cube-shaped main building on the Kaaba in Mecca, and the effect up close is more brutalist than Mughal. Two shallow domed entrance porticoes on the north and south carry three horseshoe arches each.
Baitul Mukarram Mosque
Bangladesh's national mosque, Kaaba-shaped and holds 40,000 worshippers