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.
Ruplal House
Ruplal House exhibits a fine example of the late Renaissance European architecture introduced during the colonial period. Rooplal House was built by Armenian Jamindar Aratun in 1825. It was bought by Rooplal Das and his brother Roghunath Das in 1835 and renovated in neo-classical style, by hiring Martin and company, an architectural firm of Calcutta.
Tajhat Palace
Tajhat Palace, Tajhat Rajbari, is a historic palace of Bangladesh, located in Tajhat, Rangpur. This palace now has been turned into a museum. Tajhat Palace is situated three km. south-east of the city of Rangpur, on the outskirts of town.
The palace was built by Maharaja Kumar Gopal Lal Roy in the beginning of the 20th century. He was a descendent of a Hindu Kayastha who emigrated from the Punjab. It is believed that from the conspicuous appearance of his Taj or jeweled crown, his estate derived the name of Tajhat.
From 1984 to 1991 the palace was used as a Rangpur High Court Branch of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. In 1995 the palace was declared as a protected monument by the Department of Archaeology. Recognizing its outstanding architectural value the Government of Bangladesh shifted the Rangpur Museum to the second floor of the palace in 2005. The main room at the top of the marble stairs have a number of display cases which show 10th-11th century terracotta artifacts. There are a number of fine examples of Sanskrit and Arabic manuscripts, including copies of the Mahabharat, Ramayan, and a Quran whose provenance is attributed to none other than the Mughal Aurangzeb. The back rooms have several examples of black stone Hindu carvings in its back rooms, mainly of the deity Vishnu. Photography is not permitted in the museum itself.
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