Category: Historical Places

5 Facts about Rangamati: Rangamati is situated at the side of Kaptai Lake, that’s why it is considered as the ‘Lake City’ of Bangladesh. Kaptai  lake was made in 1960 dotted with island Rangamati is the largest district in Bangladesh (6,116.3 sq km) Rangamati is the only district in Bangladesh with international borders with two …

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5 Facts about Sixty-Dome Mosque: The construction of the Shat Gombuz Mosque was started in 1442 and it was completed in 1459. The mosque was used for prayers, and also as a madrasha and assembly hall. It was founded by a saint-General, named Khan Jahan Ali. The ‘Sixty Dome’ Mosque has walls of unusually thick, tapered brick …

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Five Interesting Facts about Lal Bagh Fort!!! Lal Bagh Fort is an incomplete Mughal structure. When father of Muhammad Azam (the third son of Aurangazeb) asked him to go back in Delhi, he followed his father’s order, kept the construction incomplete which he started in 1678.             Shaista Khan, the then governor (Subedar) of Dhaka …

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Before the construction was finished, Prince Mohammad Azam (the third son of Aurangazeb) was called back to his father, to assist him in the war against the Marathas. Legend says, after the Mughal prince departed, Shaista Khan, the then governor (Subedar) of Dhaka continued with building the project, but upon the untimely death of his …

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The blueprint of our National Memorial was done by Syed Mainul Hossain. Interestingly, he was not directly assigned as the architect for the project, rather won the privilege by winning the design competition held by the government in 1978, out of 56 other contestants.  Syed Mainul Hossain, won the national design competition for the National …

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