Tomb of Pari Bibi at Lalbag Fort

Lalbagh Fort, an unfinished Mughal palace stronghold in Dhaka stood on the banks of the river Buriganga in the southwestern part of the old city. The river has now enthused more south and flows at Quite a coldness from the fort. D’Oily’s picture (1809-1 I) shows that more than half of this east-west oblong stronghold touch the water of the river on its southern and southwestern sides. The building of the fort was commencing in 1678 AD by Prince Muhammad Azam during his I 5 month long vice-royalty of Bengal.

For a long time the fort was measured to be a alliance of three buildings (the mosque, the tomb of Bibi Pari and the Diwan-i-Aam), two gateways and a piece of the partly damaged intensification wall. In the present fort area of 7.2 hectares, excavations have revealed the remnants of structure. Of the three existing gateways, the southern one is the most impressive. Seen from the front it is a three-storied arrangement with a fronton, bordered with slender minarets. From inside it gives the feeling of a two-storied arrangement.

A irrigate canal with fountains at usual intervals connects the three buildings from east to west and two comparable channels run from south to north. The construction in the middle, the tomb of Bibi Pari, is the most imposing of the existing buildings of the fort. Eight rooms enclose a central square room, containing the mortal remains of Bibi Pari, which is covered by a false dome. Octagonal in shape, and wrapped by brass plate. The entire inner wall of the central room was covered with white mineral. While the four side central rooms had stone skirting up to a height of one meter. The wall in the four corner rooms was skirted with fine-looking glazed floral tiles. The tiles have newly, been restored; two of the original tiles have been retained. The southeastern corner room contains a small grave, commonly known to be of Shamsad Begum, possibly a relative of Bibi Pari. The Lalbagh Fort Mosque is a three-domed mosque with a water tank..  

Mahasthangarah in Bogura

It is measured the oldest archaeological site of the county. It is situated at a detachment of 18 km north or Bogra town on the western bank of the Karatoa River. The stunning site is an impressive landmark in the area. Having a long carrying weapons field. Beyond the carrying weapons area, other ancient ruins fan out within a semicircle of regarding 8 km radius. Several remote mounds, the local names of which are Govinda Bhita Temple, Khodia Pathar Mound, Mankalir Kunda, Parsuramer Bedi, Jiyat Kunda etc. enclose the carrying weapons city. This 3rd century B.C. archaeological site is still held to be of huge sanctity by the Hindus. Every year (mid-April) and once every 12 years (in December) thousands of Hindu devotee join the dip ceremony on the bank of the Karatoa River.

A visit to the Mahasthangarh site museum will explain tourists with wide diversity or antiquity, ranging from earth substance to gold knick-knacks and coins healthier from the site. Also of note are the holy place or Shah Sultan Bulki Mahisawaiy and Gokul Medh in the neighbourhood of Mahasthangarh.

Lalbag Fort in Old Dhaka City

Lalbagh Fort, an unfinished Mughal palace stronghold in Dhaka stood on the banks of the river Buriganga in the southwestern part of the old city. The river has now moved additional south and flows at Quite a detachment from the fort. D’Oily’s picture (1809-1 I) shows that more than half of this east-west four-sided figure stronghold touched the water of the river on its southern and southwestern sides. The building of the fort was commencing in 1678 AD by Prince Muhammad Azam during his I 5 month long vice-royalty of Bengal.

For a long time the fort was well thought-out to be a mixture of three buildings (the mosque, the tomb of Bibi Pari and the Diwan-i-Aam), two gateways and a segment of the partly scratched reinforcement wall. In the in attendance fort area of 7.2 hectares, excavations have exposed the remnants of structures. Of the three existing gateways, the southern one is the most impressive. Seen from the front it is a three-storied organization with a fronton, bordered with slender minarets. From inside it gives the feeling of a two-storied arrangement.

 A water waterway with fountains at usual intervals connects the three buildings from east to west and two similar channels run from south to north. The construction in the central point, the tomb of Bibi Pari, is the most remarkable of the existing buildings of the fort. Eight rooms enclose a central square room, containing the mortal remains of Bibi Pari, which is enclosed by a false dome. Octagonal in shape, and wrapped by brass plate. The entire inner wall of the innermost room was enclosed with white marble. While the four side innermost rooms had stone avoidance up to a height of one gauge. The wall in the four bend rooms was skirted with beautiful glazed floral tiles. The tiles have lately, been restored; two of the original tiles have been retained. The southeastern bend room contains a small grave, commonly known to be of Shamsad Begum, possibly a relative of Bibi Pari. The Lalbagh Fort Mosque is a three-domed mosque with a water tank.

Qilla Mosque at Lalbag Fort

Lalbagh Fort, an unfinished Mughal palace stronghold in Dhaka stood on the banks of the river Buriganga in the southwestern part of the old city. The river has now moved further south and flows at Quite a distance from the fort. D’Oily’s painting (1809-1 I) shows that more than half of this east-west oblong stronghold touched the water of the river on its southern and southwestern sides. The building of the fort was commencing in 1678 AD by Prince Muhammad Azam during his I 5 month long vice-royalty of Bengal.

For a long time the fort was measured to be a amalgamation of three building (the mosque, the tomb of Bibi Pari and the Diwan-i-Aam), two gateways and a piece of the partly spoiled strengthening wall. In the current fort area of 7.2 hectares, excavations have exposed the remains of structure. Of the three existing gateways, the southern one is the most impressive. Seen from the front it is a three-storied arrangement with a fronton, surrounded with slender minarets. From inside it gives the feeling of a two-storied structure.

A water waterway with fountains at regular interval connects the three buildings from east to west and two comparable channels run from south to north. The building in the central point, the tomb of Bibi Pari, is the most remarkable of the surviving buildings of the fort. Eight rooms enclose a central square room, containing the mortal remains of Bibi Pari, which is enclosed by a false dome. Octagonal in shape, and wrapped by self-assurance plate. The entire inner wall of the central room was enclosed with white marble. While the four side middle rooms had stone skirting up to a tallness of one meter. The wall in the four bend rooms was skirted with good-looking glazed floral tiles. The tiles have lately, been restored; two of the innovative tiles have been retained. The southeastern bend room contains a small grave, commonly known to be of Shamsad Begum, perhaps a relative of Bibi Pari. The Lalbagh Fort Mosque is a three-domed mosque with a irrigate tank.

Kuthibari Nobel Laureate Part Rabindranath Tagore

Shilaidaha Kuthibadi a significant place connected with RABINDRANATH TAGORE and a tourist spot. It stands on top of the south bank of the canal Padma in Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia district and is five miles north of the area head office across the Gadai and conflicting to the Pabna urban on further than north crossways the Padma. Shilaidaha is also famed for the kachhari (office) of the Birahimpur zamindari and the significant kuthibadi of the Tagore relations of Jorasanko.

Shilaidaha is a comparatively current name; its old name was Khorshedpur. Proceeding to the Thakurs of Jorasanko acquired the village in the center of the 19th century there stood an indigo-Kuthi reportedly built by a planter, named Shelly. A deep daha (whirlpool) was shaped there at the confluence of the Gadai and the Padma, and hence the village came to be known as 'Shelly-daha', which ultimately took the form of 'Silaidaha'. DWARKANATH TAGORE, grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore, became the proprietor of this zamindari in 1807 by resources of a will executed in his favour by Ramlochan Tagore. Rabindranath unspecified the accountability of looking following the zamindari and came to Shilaidaha for the primary instance in November 1889.

Rabindranath Tagore in his teenage years and even later infrequently stayed there during his periodic examination of the zamindari estate. But later the Padma began to eat covetously its banks during high flood close to the old Kuthibadi. Anxious at the devastating wearing away it was dismantled and its building equipment was used for the school congregation of the new Kuthibadi. There the poet lived for more than a decade at irregular intervals flanked by 1891 and 1901. During his stay there, well-known scientists, litterateurs and intelligentsia of Bengal such as Sir JAGADISH CHANDRA BOSE, DWIJENDRALAL ROY, PRAMATHA CHOWDHURY, MOHITLAL MAJUMDER, Lokendranath Palit visited him on a variety of occasions. Meeting at his small table in the Kuthibadi or on a boat on the Padma, Rabindranath wrote a numeral of masterpiece: Sonar Tari, Chitra, Chaitali, Katha O Kahini, Ksanika, most of the poetry of Naibedya and Kheya, and the songs of GITANJALI and Gitimalya. It was here, in 1912, that the writer ongoing his transformation of Gitanjali into English, which earned him the Nobel Prize in 1913. Rabindranath had a deep accessory for Shilaidaha and the Padma, which is obvious in his Chhinna Patrabali. The poet once wrote in a letter, 'The holy place of my literary pursuits throughout my youth and central point age was the rural group of people of Shilaidaha kissed by the impression of the Padma'.

Kuthibadi is a charming three-storied terraced small house, construct with brick, timber, grooved tin sheet and Raniganj tiles. Silaidaha Kuthibadi is nestled within about eleven acres of fine-looking orchards of mango, jackfruit and other evergreen trees, a blossom backyard and two ponds. Silaidaha has a captivating commonplace beauty and rural background. The Villa, with this within a border line wall, is entered from side to side a simple but good-looking gateway on the south. It accommodates about 15 apartments of various sizes with a large middle hall on the earth and the first floors. Each of the open terraces on the ground and the first floors is partly with this with a sloping roof of Raniganj tiles, while the innermost part in excess of the ground floor has a pitched roof with gable ends. A short pyramidal crest further than variegates the roof over the subsequent storey. Silaidaha Kuthibadi is now a secluded countrywide memorial where a Thakur Memorial Museum has been well-known by the government.

Rabindranath in progress his investigational work with village expansion and modern methods of crop growing at Shilaidaha, which he later undertook at PATISAR. He well-known a primary school there in the name of Pratima Devi, his daughter-in-law.

The birth and death anniversaries of the poet are experimental at Silaidaha on a national level on 25 Baishakh and 22 Shraban in that order. Many scholars from home and abroad attend this high spirits and take part in negotiations on the life and works of Rabindranath. Cultural functions follow, during which well-known artistes at hand TAGORE SONGS

The Ahsan Manjil representing the era of Nawabs

It is located at Kumartoli in older Dhaka on the bank of the river Buriganga. It was the presidential stronghold and the kachari of the nawabs of Dhaka. It has in recent times been turned into a museum. The building of the palace was begun in 1859 and finished in 1872. Nawab Abdul Ghani named it Ahsan Manzil behind his lad Khwaja Ahsanullah. Ahsan Manzil is one of the important architectural monuments of the country. Recognized on a raised stage of 1 meter, the two-storied palace actions 125.4m by 28.75m. The height of the ground floor is 5 meters and that of the first floor 5.8 meters. There is portico of the tallness of the ground floor, both on the northern and southern sides of the fortress. A roomy open staircase has come down from the southern entrance, extending up to the bank of the river from side to side the front garden.

On the inside, the palace is separated into two balanced halves on moreover side of the dome. There is a great illustration room in the east wing of the first floor. On its northern side there is documentation and a card room, and in the eastern angle there are four square rooms. On the western wing of the first floor there is a drudgery jalsaghar with a Hindustani room on the northern side and four square rooms in the western angle. The floors of these two rooms are finished off made of wood planks. On the ground floor there is a big dining hall and six four-sided figure rooms in the eastern part. There is beautiful wooden staircase in the room that is emotionally involved to the north of the vaulted room. The bauisters were decorated with vine leaves complete of iron all along the railing of the staircase. The made of wood ceiling of the room, ornamented with numerical designs, is very elegant.

Sonargaon- the oldest capital of Bengal

Sonargaon's value in the pre-Muslim age is borne out by its very old name of Suvarnagrama (the golden village), from which it is visible how the Muslim description of the name is derived, as well as by the continuation of Langalbandh and Panchamighat, the two usual holy bathing places of the Hindus, in this tract of land on the west bank of the old Brahmaputra. Sonargaon rose to be the seat of an self-governing ruler under Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah, and after his fall it was the head office of the eastern province of Bengal under the Tughlaqs till 1338. Sonargaon emerged as the capital of a self-determining Sultanate under Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah (1338-1349). In the late nineteenth and near the beginning twentieth century Panam Nagar was urbanized in a part of medieval Sonargaon.

By the second district of the fourteenth century AD Sonargaon had urbanized into a profitable city; seafaring boats could easily reach Sonargaon from west Asian and southeast Asian countries. Ibn Batuta describes Sonargaon as a significant port city, which had direct profitable relations with countries like China, Indonesia (Java) and the Maldives. Muslin produced in Sonargaon, especially its premium diversity called khasa, had a universal reputation. With the loss of political status in the next decade of the seventeenth century AD Sonargaon gradually lost its profitable significance as well. It again rose to some distinction in the nineteenth century AD when Panam Nagar was recognized as a trading centre in cotton fabrics, chiefly English piece goods. Sonargaon urbanized into a seat of Islamic knowledge under the adaptable academic Maulana Sharfuddin Abu Tawwamah of Bokhara who came to Sonargaon a little bit connecting 1282 and 1287 and recognized a Khanqah and madrasa in which all brushwood of Islamic knowledge as well as worldly sciences were skilled and study.

National Parliament of Bangladesh

It is one of the majority majestic public buildings in Bangladesh. The National Parliament (Sangsad Bhaban) complex is situated at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar of Dhaka city. The National Parliament construction is an architectural work of art for which the country can be said to be justifiably proud.

The choice to build the National Parliament Complex at Dhaka was first taken in 1959. Louis I Kahn. one of the maximum architects of the time was firstly selected for designing the complex. Which would take in the National Parliament Building? Hostels for members of parliament. Ministers and secretaries. Welcome halls and communally buildings. All connected by transportation and walkways and bounded by good-looking gardens and lakes. The main feature of the construction is it’s monumentally. The mass of concrete lined with marble strips, the outer wall punctuate by pure geometrical openings and the dominating circular and rectangular concrete masses teach a maximum monumentality to the construction quite suited to its noble function.

The main construction complex consists of nine individual blocks, of which eight at its periphery rise to a height of 35 meters, while the octagonal block at the centre shoots up to 52 meters. The middle block accommodates the Parliament assembly room with a capacity of 354 seats for members of the parliament. The entire complex has a floor area or 76,487 SQ meters in the major construction, 20725 sq meters in the South Plaza and 6,041 sq meters in the North Plaza.

There is not a single column in the entire construction. Hollow columns that are parts of room enclosures have been modified as structural supports.

One of the main considerations in designing the structure was safety from the sun and rain. The structure provides a visual feeling or a majestic edifice. It avoided the conventional method of placing windows in the external and the disadvantages of monumental work of art were indifferent by the provision of core walls with small gaps in connecting. Architecturally, the complex marks a distinct disappearance from the rest of the up to date buildings in Dhaka.