History & Background
Originally built in the early 1700s by Mirza Ghulam Pir, a wealthy Hindu zamindar convert, the mosque took its present dazzling form in the 1920s when Ali Jan Bepari, a local businessman, funded a renovation using broken Japanese and English porcelain chinaware embedded in intricate star-pattern mosaics. The stars symbolize the night sky and are believed to represent celestial guidance in Islamic art. A further renovation in the 1940s added floral motifs and a depiction of Chinese-style scenery on the eastern wall.