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.