Sonakanda Fort

Sonakanda Fort is a river fort situated in Narayanganj on the eastern bank of Shitalakshya River. Though the actual time of its establishment could not be ascertained, historians believe that the river fort was built by Mir Jumla II, a Subahdar of Bengal under the Mughal Empire, to defend Dhaka and Narayanganj from the pirates.

History : The Bengal went under the effective control of Mughal Empire in 1574 AD after the defeat of Daud Khan Karrani to Mughal General Munim Khan. Mughals exercised a progressive rule in Bengal and were determined to protect their subjects from external forces.

Hajiganj Fort

Hajiganj Fort situated on the western bank of the Sitalakshya River at Hajiganj in Narayanganj. This Mughal fort was probably established during the time of mir jumla to counter the raids of the Maghs and the Portuguese. This is one of the archaeological sites in Bangladesh listed by Department of Archaeology of Bangladesh.

Murapara Rajbari

Murapara Palace, also known as “Murapara Jomidar Bari” is located at the Rupganj of Narayanganj. It was built in 1909 by Zaminder Jagadish Chabndra Banerjee.

Murapara Rajbari is a well known palace in Rupganj Upazila, in Narayanganj District. The palace is situated in murapara village, about 25 km southeast of Dhaka on the Narsindghi road. It is connected 5 km stretch of bumpy brick-paved feeder road on the west of main Dhaka- Sylhet trunk road.

History: "Murapara Rajbari" is one of the examples of such activity of an affluent community located in Murapara village, about 25 kilometres southeast of Dhaka on the western side of the Dhaka-Narsingdi road. The Murapara Jomidarbari/Palace was established by the founder of the Murapara Raj family named Ramratan Banerjee. He was appointed as treasurer of the Natore estate and rose to a high position and acquired large properties by dint of his honesty. One source says it was Ramratan Banarjee who constructed the palace in 1889 but the other source says he just established the basement of the structure. It was Protap Chandra Banarjee who left his old traditional house and made new palace behind the old one in 1889.

Idrakpur Fort

Idrakpur Fort was built in 1660 A.D. on the bank of the river Ichhamati during the Mughal rule. Situated at Munshiganj. The present Munshigonj town including the outlying areas was known as Idrakpur which was named after the then Mughal faujdar Idrak. It was intended to counter the advances of the ‘magh’ and ‘portuguese’ raiders by water.

Baba Adam Mosque

This six domed mosque was built by the great Malik Kafur during the reign of Sultan Jalaluddin Fatah Shah in or around 1483 A.D. Baba Adam’s Mosque is now a protected monument under the Department of Archaeology, Bangladesh.

Binat Bibi Mosque

This pre-Mughal building is the oldest mosque built in Dhaka. According to an inscription, Bakht Binat, daughter of Marhamat, built it 15th Century dated in 1454 during the rule of Sultan Mahmud Shah I.

Wari Bateshwar

The Wari-Bateshwar region in Narsingdi, Bangladesh is the site of an ancient fort city dating back to 450 BCE. The 2500-year old ruins being unearthed near the old course of the Brahmaputra River are a major archaeological discovery in South Asia. It challenges the earlier notions of early urban civilization in Bengal.

The site is about 75km from Dhaka situated near the Wari and Bateshwar villages in the Belabo Upazila of Narsingdi District.

Bikrampur Vihara

Bikrampur Vihara is an ancient Buddhist ‘Vihara’ (monastery) at Raghurampur village in Bikrampur region of Munshiganj District. The monastery is located at Raghurampur village under Rampal Upazila of Munshiganj District.

The discovery was declared at 23 March 2013 after four years of excavation conducted jointly by Agrasar Bikrampur Foundation, a local socio-cultural organization, and Archaeology Department of Jahangirnagar University. The excavation was financed by Bangladesh’s Ministry of Cultural Affairs.

Goaldi Mosque

Goaldi Mosque is an elegant little pre-Mughal mosque Built in 1519 by Mulla Hizabar Akbar Khan, during the reign of Alauddin Husain Shah at a place called Goaldi, half a mile northeast of Panam village in Sonargaon Upazila of Narayanganj District. Single-domed Goaldi Mosque is a good example of the ‘enclosed square type’ mosque of Sultanate period.

Rose Garden

Rose Garden Palace was built by Zamindar Hrikesh Das in the late 19th century. It is situated in Shamibag area at the K.M. Das Lane of Tikutuli, Dhaka. The building has Corinthian columns and has eight apartments including a central hall on its ground floor. There are several classical marble statues in the garden.