The Katra Masjid is a former caravanserai, mosque and the tomb of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan.

It was built during the 18th century, when the early modern Bengal Subah was a major hub of trade in Eurasia.

The Katra Masjid is located in the north eastern side of the city of Murshidabad, in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Murshid Quli Khan on reaching old age, expressed his desire to construct his tomb adjacent to a mosque.

He entrusted the responsibility for constructing the mosque to his trusted follower who was an architect, Murad Farash Khan .

At the two ends of the mosque, two miratets measuring 70 feet high, are still existing to date in a dilapidated condition, they had domes which were destroyed in the 1897 earthquake.

In 1780 AD, a traveller name William Hodges wrote that 700 Quran readers lived there in the mosque.

Hodges in his book Select Views of India describes it as "a grand seminary of Musalman learning, adorned by a mosque which rises high above all the surrounding buildings".

He wanted to be buried in such a place where he could be trodden and could get the foot prints and the touch of the feet of the noble men who climb those stairs and enter the mosque.

In the mosque there is a slab embedded at the top where it is written in Arabic: "Muhammad, the Arabian, the glory of both worlds.