Katabon Mosque

{{Short description|Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh}}

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| location = Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Katabon Mosque ({{langx|bn|কাটাবন মসজিদ}}) in Shahbag, Dhaka is a center for Muslim missionaries in Bangladesh. It houses the Bangladesh Masjid Mission (Bangladesh Mosque Mission) and is officially named as the "Bangladesh Masjid Mission Complex Central Mosque".{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} It is adjacent to where the stables of the Dhaka Nawab Family used to be.{{cite book |last=Alamgir |first=Mohammad |year=2012 |chapter=Shahbag |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Shahbag |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}}

The mosque houses the Islamic Economics Research Bureau, which works to "synergize the intellectual capabilities of the modern day professionals, academicians, and students of Islamic banking and finance".Mohammen Nasir Jawed, Year Book of the Muslim World, page 167, South Asia Books, 2006, {{ISBN|81-86420-00-2}} The Bangladesh Masjid Mission advocate a more orthodox form of Islam in Bangladesh.{{cite book |author=U.A.B. Razia Akter |title=Islam in Bangladesh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyzqATEDPSgC&dq=%22Islam+Prochar+Samity%22&pg=PA51 |year=1992 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=90-04-09497-0 |page=51}}