Tomb of Murshid Quli Khan, Tomb of Murshid Quli Khan's wife Nowsher Banu Begum and Tomb of Sujauddin

1.Tomb of Murshid Quli Khan:

The oldest tomb in Murshidabad is that of Murshid Quli Khan. 

Moreover, the Katra Mosque is one of the major antiquities of Murshidabad.  Murshid Quli Khan was the founder of this huge shrine built in imitation of the mosque of Mecca.His body is buried here.  He had plans to set up a Katara trade center at this place. 

 But even though the mosque cemetery was built, the trade center was not built.Realizing that his physical condition was deteriorating, Murshid Quli Khan ordered the construction of the Katra Mosque site within a year.Accordingly, his faithful servant, Morad Faras, completed a great task in 1717 AD.  There is no such big mosque in West Bengal except Adina Mosque in Malda district.  The mosque is located at the western end of a spacious courtyard measuring 51 meters in length and width equal to 1 storey.Murshid Quli Khan's tomb is preserved in a small room just below this staircase.

  Nawab Murshid Quli Khan himself made this plan in the footsteps of a pious visitor in the hope of shedding all the sins of life.The roof of the mosque house is made up of 5 domes 40 meters long, 4 meters wide and 15 meters in diameter.Now he has only two left.  Three of them are broken.  The two-storied domed roofs around the courtyard were built for a number of travelers.Going a little along the right side of the mosque premises, one can see the tomb of Murshid Quli Khan surrounded by an iron railing in a small room at the bottom of the stairs.believe that the tomb of Murshid Quli Khan, an unhealthy weather product, needs to be renovated.  Katra Mosque is preserved by the Archaeological Department.  Thousands of visitors come here every year.

Destroyed tomb of Nowshera Banu Begum, wife of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan

2. Tomb of Nowsher Begum, wife of Murshid Quli Khan:

The tomb of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan's wife Nowsher Banu Begum is covered in a pile of rubbish due to extreme negligence.

Murshid Quli Khan's palace was a little to the north of the three large arches north of Chawkbazar built by Nawab Sujauddin.  Which is now the palace of Murshid Quli Khan on the side of the road on the east side.It was there that his wife Nowsher Banu Begum built a mosque in 1831.  At the entrance of this mosque, as soon as you go up the stairs, you will find a walled mosque.

There is a tomb of Bengali Nawab Murshid Quli Khan Begum in a room under the stairs at the entrance of the mosque premises.  The Samadhi Bhavan was built around the Samadhi.  Now there is nothing but some part of his ruined wall.

Entering the Samadhi Bhaban on the right side of the entrance to the mosque, looking to the left, you will see a dark room just below the attic of the staircase leading to the mosque premises, and a door just in front of the entrance to the room.

Most of the door is covered with bricks, wood, stone and rubbish.  Sunlight does not enter the part that is free.  As far as you can see through the empty part of the door, the inside is full of garbage.

No one will have the good fortune or courage to visit the tomb.  The question arises as to why the tomb of Bengali Nawab Murshid Quli Khan Begum is in this condition.  Why is there so much neglect where the magnificent renovation of Nawab palace at a distance of 100 meters is being done every year.  Thousands of visitors come here every day but they do not know that the tomb of Nowshera Begum, the wife of Murshid Quli Khan, is slowly disappearing from the history of the Nawabi period.

3.Tomb of Sujauddin, son-in-law of Murshid Quli Khan:

Nawab Sujauddin was a very fancy luxury beauty lover.  That is why he could not be satisfied with the palace and other architectural style built by Murshid Quli.  He has built the architecture of his choice.

Nawab Sujauddaula Samadhi Bhaban at Rashnibagh on the other side of Hazarduari.  Sujauddin's mausoleum is located in a well-decorated area surrounded by walls.The tomb of Nawab Sujauddin at Rashnibagh is the largest in Murshidabad.  Sujauddin's tomb is about 3 meters long.When the old tomb is destroyed, a new tomb is built.  Uddin's grave is about three feet high on the altar and inside the building, about 3 meters long and one meter high.A small tomb was observed on the south verandah of the mausoleum.It is rumored that it is the grave of Sujauddin's adopted daughter.  There is a name plate at the bottom in front of the mausoleum building and there are some little flower arrangements.  The road from here to the south through the gate of Panchil though has been preserved by the old department and the entrance to the north side of the mausoleum has been kept.

To the south of the building, a few steps lead up to the tomb.  The tomb of Sujauddin's adopted daughter is at the end of the west wall in the front verandah of the Samadhi building.As soon as you cross the verandah and enter, there is a huge tomb of Sujauddin.  There are six 1 feet high minarets at the top of the tomb.There is no name plate on the tomb altar.  The tomb is in danger of being left in a state of disrepair for a long time.  There are cracks somewhere.  The color coating is falling off.  The condition of the floor of the house is not good either.However, the environment outside the tomb building is very beautiful. 

There are two more mausoleums on the south-east side of Sujauddin's mausoleum premises.The first is the tomb of a fakir named Shafi Uddin.The other is the tomb of Dadasaheb Fakir. To commemorate these two fakirs, a grand festival is held here every year from the third to the seventh day of the month of Chaitra.Hundreds of people from the surrounding villages came here...।।