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PLACES OF INTEREST
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BANDAR SAKHRI
Bandar Sakhri (Dapoli T.; p. 524); landing place, two miles north-east of Dabhol, has, on a reclaimed piece of ground on the left bank of the Vasishthi, a very simple ruined black-stone building known as the Juma, or Amina, mosque. Its age is not known, but from a paper about the appointment of a warden, the building must be as old as the beginning of the seventeenth century (1624). It was probably built by one of a family of Khans who formerly held several villages in the neighbourhood. To the east and west of Sakhri, in the villages of Kothambe and Maji Tentla, are two other mosques, and on a hill close by, a step well called the horse well, ghodbav, seemingly of the same age as the mosques.
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