About 350m north of the Armenian church you’ll come to Sitara Mosque (Star Mosque, Armanitola Rd), one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions. Its striking mosaic decoration makes it look like your granny’s best teacups. The mosques dates from the early 18th century, but has been radically altered. It was originally built in the typical Mughal style, with four corner towers. Around 50 years ago a local businessman financed its redecoration with Japanese and English china-tiles, and the addition of anew varanda. If you look hard we can see tiles illustrated with pictures of Mt Fuji. Non –Muslims are normally welcome outside of prayer time, but you should dress appropriately and women should bring something with which to cover their hair. Sitara Mosque is pictured on the Tk 100 note.
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