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The elegant Rose Garden Rajbar is on
Tipu Sultan Road, Old Dhaka:

Nayabad Mosque, Dinajpur
Islamic Architecture merged with tradition


Seven Domed mosque - built in 1676 - Mughal Era


Tara Mosque

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The solitary splendour-mosque and tomb of Haji Khawaja Shahbaz





Haji Khwaja Shahbaz, known as the Malik-ul-tujjur or Merchant-Prince is said to have lived in Tongi when he came to this country. At the time when he built this mosque, Bengal was experiencing an era of Muslim grandeur and influence and Dhaka enjoyed the status of a provincial Mughal capital. Shaista Khan as the Subedar inaugurated the most memorable phase of Dhaka's history. Waves of luxury and prosperity embraced Dhaka.

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Tajhat palace still attracts visitors from home and abroad because of its amassing architectural skill. The 100-year-old extraordinarily designed palace makes visitors ponder over the urbanisation of old Rangpur and craftsmanship of the past...

Mahiganj the then main town of Rangpur of which Tajhat was a part. This town was urbanised with the Tajhat viceroy as the centre..

The founder of Tajhaat-dynasty Manna Lal Roy was a big cap merchant. He came from Punjab in India in early 18th century. He became rich with the sales of caps. Fortune smiled on him during the famine of 1770-1790. He lent money to many viceroys in the region,had other viceroys in Rangpur and its adjoining areas under his control and became an influential zaminder in the 19th century

After 1972 Tajhat palace was an asset of the Archaeology Department. But it was handed over to the ministry of law in 1984. The ministry shifted the then Rangpur high court to the palace. After the fall of the Jatiya Party in 1990, the new government decided to withdraw the high court from Rangpur in 1991. On vacation of the Rangpur High Court the palace was came under the purview of the Ministry of Law till 1995. In 1995 the Tajhat palace was handed over to the ministry of culture

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Rangpur Carmichael College, a traditional and prestigious educational institution setup during the British regime in undivided Bengal is still playing a challenging role in the education sector.

The institute has already gone through 88 long years educating millions of students since its inception in 1916.

In 1922 Lord Liton on a visit to the college remarked on the visitor's book as "...my greatest pleasure in visiting this institution was promoting the B.Sc. classes during my tenure..."

Among the principals, the most remarkable were Dr. Watkins, Dr. D.N. Mallick, and Dev Proshad Ghosh.


In 1955 the students and teachers of the Bengali department of Carmichael College formed a literature union under the name "Samajderer Ashore". The activities of said organisation continued for next five years. Founder president was poet Mohammed Sultan, a close friend of Kazi Nazrul Islam.

In the 1940s there were 1,000 students in Carmichael college. Of them only 25 percent were Muslims. Despite individual colleges in Bihar and Assam many of the students migrated to Carmichael only because of the reputation it yielded. During this period the female students were from the Hindu community and others found it difficult to outbeat the Hindu students' merit.

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Essesence Of Gone Days.


High court-er majare koto Fakir ghore " the tune of a popular song resonates nostalgically with the word High court. The name derives its identification of a court building where silent footsteps echoes on the white marble floor as hushed voices of the court people -- justices, judges, barristers, lawyers, security personnel, pleaders and criminals of so many reverberate along the walls.

Today it is no more a court building but houses the Defense Ministry of the Bangladesh Government although originally constructed for a very different purpose. The white coloured two-storey grand edifice standing against the lush and verdant green Ramna, popularly known as the Old High Court Building was originally designed to be the official residence of the governor of the Bengal when Assam and East Bengal was created as a new province in 1905 -- the time of political and socio-economic change. Lord Curzon, the imperial wing of the Conservative party in England was made the Governor with hope for improvement in the administration

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A swift drive along the Chandanpura Road will not catch your eye. But a slow stroll on the ever-busy road or a leisure ride on a rickshaw will draw your attention to the beauty, splendour and grandeur of an architectural marvel.

The Chandpura Mosque, located in the port city, has it all. Chittagong can boast of architectural heritages and the mosque is certainly one of them

Abdul Hamid Master a zaminder at Chandanpura during the later part of 18th century. He built a big earthen mosque on a large piece of land, which changed through the passage of time in 1950 into concrete, yet holding together the original architectural design.

Abu Syed Dobash, one of Hamid Master's successors, started the change in 1947 and it took three years to complete the work, which cost him approximately Tk 4 lakh, which was considered huge during that period

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Peelkhana, or the Royal Elephants Shelter, was at the northwest periphery of Mughal Dhaka, along with a small cavalry garrison too. The elephants paraded as they walked along Elephant Road up to Begunbari Khal to bathe. True to tradition, the Mughal Eidghah was just on the outskirts of the city on the riverbank, further to the east than its present courses, and now silted away because of the expansion of late-Mughal and colonial settlements in Hazaribagh-Rayerbazaar belt that contains many small late-Mughal and Colonial structures.

A few kilometres to the north of Peelkhana was the Sarai Jafarbad-Katasur area, possibly a caravan route along the river. A small urban settlement in this area is evident from its geographic and strategic location, origin of the name(s) of the locality, and the remnants of few Mughal period structures, particularly two mosques, one of which was demolished recently, and two tombs, one of which was converted to a mosque.

A small rural community with agricultural land in between may have existed, which area in course of time became like a jungle due to disuse, dereliction and abandonment mainly during the British period. This has now become one of the planned and most expensive residential enclaves of Dhaka - - Dhanmondi. One major peripheral road of the district to its west -- the Satmasjid Road, bearing the name of the most famous of these edifices- the Satgambuz Masjid (Seven Domed Mosque).
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The Tomb of Dara Begum, built on the east bank of a huge pond nearly three acres in size in what is now Lalmatia Block F, is variously known as Shahi Masjid or Bibir Majid to the locals. This, converted and extended in a huge multi-storied mosque with sales/display centre at semi-basement level, is part of the Jamia Islamia Madrashah complex, and the pond is used for pisci-culture as a source of income. Traditionally the tomb is ascribed either to a daughter of Shaista Khan or to the wife of a Subahdar before him. Based on the stronger and more sober style, it looks like belonging to some high ranking lady who died before Khan's time.

The best example of pre-Mughal single dome kiosk mosque in Dhaka, though built in much later time of 1680, was the Allahkuri mosque in Mohammedpur. This simple style has been very popular throughout the Islamic world at all ages because of its simplicity. However, unlike the Sultanate or earlier Mughal examples, the mosque was distinguished by the semi-octagonal mihrab niche, plastered walls, horizontal parapet, corner towers rising above the parapet and ending in solid kiosks with small cupolas, the dome being placed on octagonal drum crowned by lotus with kalasha finial. The building called for attention as it had four axially projected frontons with bordering ornamental turrets, an idea borrowed from axial iwan-type gateways of the Persian influenced upper Indian standard Mughal mosques, e.g. Delhi Jami Masjid or Lahore Badshahi Masjid. Unfortunately this historic and architectural heritage structure was demolished recently to pave way for a supermarket!

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Lalbag Fort

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