13 reviews

Jafraganj Mosque

Name: Jafraganj Mosque
Address: Murshidabad, IN
Rating: 4.30

Mosque

6727+8JP, Kathgola, Murshidabad, West Bengal 742149, India

Murshidabad West Bengal

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Jafraganj Mosque is a mosque located in Murshidabad, West Bengal. The average rating of this place is 4.30 out of 5 stars based on 13 reviews. The street address of this place is 6727+8JP, Kathgola, Murshidabad, West Bengal 742149, India. It is about 1.12 kilometers away from the Dhapara Dham railway station.

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Where is Jafraganj Mosque located?: Jafraganj Mosque is located at 6727+8JP, Kathgola, Murshidabad, West Bengal 742149, India.
What is the nearest railway station from Jafraganj Mosque?: Dhapara Dham railway station is the nearest railway station to Jafraganj Mosque. It is nearly 1.12 kilometers away from it.

What people say about Jafraganj Mosque

Snigdha Basu 11 months ago

According to the locals, it is the personal mosque of Mir Zafar. Now it is closed for unknown reason. But you can get the view from outside.

Aditya Ghosh 58 months ago

was built by Mir Jafar over an area of 3.51 acres within an enclosure of waved walls, about half a mile north to the Nizamat Fort Campus and inside the campus of Namak Haram Deorhi. It hosts the graves of the later Nawabs of Bengals of the Najafi dynasty, starting from Mir Jafar, and their family members while Khushbagh, which was built by Nawab Alivardi Khan, hosts the graves of the Nawabs of Bengal belonging to the Afshar dynasty and their family members. At present this graveyard is controlled and maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India.

It is said that earlier there was a "Kitchen Garden" at the site of this cemetery which Shah Khanaum Begum (Mir Jafar's wife and Alivardi Khan's sister) was very fond of.

The Jafarganj Cemetery has the graves of the family members of the Nawab of Bengal. It hosts the graves of Nawab Nazim Humayun Jah, his wives Umdat-un-nisa Begum, Amir-un-nia-Dulhan Begum, Sultana Ghetiara Begum and Rais-un-nisa Begum; Nawab Nazim Walla Jah, his wife Nazib-un-nisa Begum; Mir Jafar and his wives Shah Khanaum Begum, Babbu Begum and Munny Begum; Nawab Nazim Mubarak ud-Daulah, his wife Faiz-un-nisa Begum; Syud Ahmed Nazafi, (Mir Jafar's father); Muhammad Ali Khan (Mir Jafar's brother); Bohu Begum, wife of Nawab Nazim Ali Jah; Nawab nazim Nazam ud-Daulah; Nawab Nazim Saif ud-Daulah; Babar Ali; Mehr Lekha Begum, (also known as Guiti Afroz Mahal), wife of Humayun Jah, who was previously a mut‘ah wife and Ismail Ali Khan and Ashraf Ali Khan (the sons-in-law of Mir Jafar).