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..
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