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[name] => Kusumba Mosque
[post_id] => 3656
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[post_content] => Kusumba Mosque is named after the village of Kusumba, under the Manda upazila of Naogaon district, on the west bank of the Atrai River. It is inside a walled enclosure with a monumental gateway that has standing spaces for guards. It was built during the period of Afghan rule in Bengal under one of the last Suri rulers Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah, by one Suleiman who was probably a high ranking official. The inscription tablet in Arabic (only the word ‘built by’ is in Persian) dating the building to 966 AH (1558-59 AD) is fixed over its eastern central entrance.
Although built during Suri rule, it is not influenced at all by the earlier Suri architecture of North India, and is well grounded in the Bengal style. The brick building, gently curved cornice, and the engaged octagonal corner towers are typical features. The mosque, presently protected by the Department of Archaeology of Bangladesh, was badly damaged during the earthquake of 1897. Although the main fabric of the building is of brick the entire exterior walls, and the interior up to the arches of the pendentives have stone facing. The columns, platform, floor, and perforated side screens are of stone. The mosque has a rectangular plan with three bays and two aisles, three entrances on the east and two each on the north and south sides.
The central mihrab is projected in the west. The interior west (qibla) wall has two mihrabs on the floor level opposite the central and southeastern entrances, but the one in the northwestern bay is above a raised platform ascended by a staircase on the east. The presence of such a platform in a non-imperial mosque indicates that not only royalty, but nobility and high-ranking officials were also separated from the general public during prayers. The mihrabs have elaborate stone carving. They have cusped arches crowned with kalasa (water pot) motifs, supported on intricately carved stone pillars which have projections and tasseled decorations hanging from chains. Bunches of grapes and vines curve in an almost serpentine manner on the mihrab frames, and kalasas, tendrils and rosettes are reduced to dots.
The platform edge has grape vine decoration, and there are rosettes on the spandrels of the arches supporting the platform, as well as on the mihrab wall. The stone used in the exterior facing is of a coarse quality and carved in shallow relief. Mouldings are most prominent decorative feature on the outside. They divide the walls into upper and lower sections, run all along the curved cornice, around the corner towers, in a straight line below the cornice, and frame the rectangular panels in the east, south and north walls. The spandrels of the central entrance arch are filled with small kalasa and rosette motifs. The north and south sides have screened windows.
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[name] => Balapur Zamindar House
[post_id] => 17404
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In different location of Narsingdi district there are a number of Archaeological sites which attract traveler and explorer to visit these places recurrently. Balapur Zamindar House (বালাপুর জমিদার বাড়ি) is one of the old palatial buildings in this district. If someone interested to visit the oldest buried civilization area in Bangladesh named as Wari-Bateshwar, then it would be better to take a glance at Balapur Zamindar House while moving there. It’s situated at Balapur village, Madhabdi Upazila of Narsingdi district.
This Zamindar House was built by local Zamindar named 'Nobin Chandra Saha' in 1906. It is also known as Zamindar Kali Babur Bari (কালী বাবুর বাড়ি). It’s a complex of buildings scattered in a particular zone. Basically, most of the buildings are three storied and some are one or two storied. Dept. of Archaeology in Bangladesh doesn’t announced it as a protected site yet. So like many others old houses in Bangladesh it is on the way of ruining.
No matter how decorative and ornamented this house is, it’s almost abandoned and some people who living in this house are so called ancestor of Zamindari estate at Balapur. Some local people are selling all the floor tiles made by white stone desperately.
But, Still today this beautiful palace standing with its own identity and spreading the essence of colonial palatial architecture in Bengal. If proper steps being taken this structure can be preserved & conserved for the future exhibiotion.
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The great Baliati Palace (বালিয়াটি জমিদার বাড়ি) is located at the Saturia Upazila of Manikganj(সাটুরিয়া, মানিকগঞ্জ) district, in the village of Baliati. This historic building is about 200 years of old. A river named Gazikhali(গাজীখালী নদী) which is demised interim of the time, flowed at the northern side of the palace.
The palace is situated on a lush and sprawling premise, approximately 16000 square meter. There are possibly 200 rooms available inside the premise. Back side of the palace has a pond having four ghats(ঘাট). Other side of the pond has a series of sanitary lavatory.
The story starts more than hundred and fifty years ago when the Baliati Zamindars were still a force to be reckoned with in Bangladesh, situated about 35 miles northwest of Dhaka and 5 miles east of Manikgonj district headquarters. The palaces used to be also known as “Dosh-ani-Zaminder bari” due to inheritance of a portion of the main complex from Roy Chand by the well wishers of his first wife among the Zaminders. Kishorilal Roy Chowdhury and Roybahadur Harendra Kumer Roy Chowdhury realized soon enough the necessity of knowledge which compelled them to establish the Jagarnath College and K.L Jubily High school. The Baliati Zaminderbari originally consisted of five similar but separate blocks. The south façade of grand palace presents an attractive frontage of about 400 feet of the extant four blocks of the palace, the two central blocks are two-storied and the other two terminal ones are three-storied. The lofty encircling walls of the imposing Zaminderbari complex are punctuated by three superb gateways, identical in their architectural features. This remarkable complex has been acquired by the Bangladesh archeological department and has been given a new name “Baliati Palace” as a protected cultural property.In exploring the expressiveness of this marvelous structure with time, culture and mood, the attached twelve snaps tell the story by dividing it into three constituent parts. First part expresses the thematic preamble of time and prestige, and style. The second part sequentially put expedition of the underlying interior in the picture capturing architectural details, vista and shape and shadow. Last part tells the present story of the exterior in light of the surrounding at present. In short, the justification of making this sequential development to bring the whole story inside out from it’s behind theme to the present.
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রাজধানী ঢাকা থেকে প্রায় ৩৫ মাইল উত্তরপশ্চিমে এবং মানিকগঞ্জ জেলা সদর থেকে ৫ মাইল পূর্বে সাটুরিয়া উপজেলায় বিখ্যাত বালিয়াটি জমিদার বাড়ি অবস্থিত। বালিয়াটি গ্রামে অবস্থিত এই প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক নিদর্শনটি প্রায় ২০০ বছর পুরাতন। এই জমিদারবাড়িটির উত্তরে একসময় গাজীখালী নদী প্রবাহিত হত। ১৬০০০ বর্গমিটার আয়তনের বিশাল এই জমিদারবাড়িটিতে প্রায় ২০০টি কক্ষ রয়েছে। জমিদারবাড়ির পেছনে অবস্থিত পুকুরের এক প্রান্তে চারটি ঘাট আছে এবং অপর প্রান্তে বেশকিছু শৌচাগার রয়েছে।
জমিদারবাড়ির একটি অংশ রায় চাঁদের কাছ থেকে অন্যান্য জমিদারদের প্রথম স্ত্রীদের উত্তরাধিকার সূত্রে প্রাপ্তির কারনে এই প্রাসাদটি ‘দশ-আনি-জমিদারবাড়ি’ নামে পরিচিত ছিল। জমিদার কিশোরিলাল চৌধুরী এবং রায়বাহাদুর হরেন্দ্র কুমার রায় চৌধুরী এই অঞ্চলের মানুষের মধ্যে জ্ঞান বৃদ্ধির প্রয়োজনীয়তা উপলব্ধি করেন এবং এই কারনে জগন্নাথ কলেজ এবং কে এল জুবিলী হাইস্কুল প্রতিষ্ঠা করেন। মূল জমিদারবাড়িতে পাঁচটি একই রকম কিন্তু ভিন্ন ভাগ ছিল। জমিদারবাড়ির দক্ষিনে বর্তমানে স্থায়ী ৪টি আকর্ষণীয় অংশ অবস্থিত। এগুলোর মধ্যে মাঝের দুটি অংশ হল দোতলা এবং পাশের বাকি তিনটি অংশ তিনতলা। জমিদারবাড়িকে ঘিরে থাকা সুউচ্চ প্রাচীরে তিনটি চমৎকার স্থাপত্যশৈলীর ফটক রয়েছে। বর্তমানে ‘বালিয়াতি প্রাসাদ’ নামকরণ করে বাংলাদেশ প্রত্নতত্ত্ব অধিদফতর এই জমিদারবাড়িটির অধিগ্রহন করে দেখাশোনা করছে। সময় এবং সংস্কৃতির সাথে সামঞ্জস্য রেখে জমিদারবাড়িটিকে তিনভাগে ভাগ করা হয়েছে বারোটি অধ্যায়ের মাধ্যমে। প্রথমভাগে সময়, শৈলী এবং ঐতিহ্যকে তুলে ধরা হয়েছে। দ্বিতীয়ভাগে জমিদারবাড়ির স্থাপত্যশৈলীর বিস্তারিত বিবরন ক্রমঅনুযায়ী বর্ণনা করা হয়েছে। শেষভাগে বর্তমান প্রেক্ষাপটে জমিদারবাড়ির গুরুত্বকে ফুটিয়ে তোলা হয়েছে। এক কথায় বলা যায় প্রথম থেকে বর্তমান পর্যন্ত এই জমিদারবাড়ির ইতিহাস চমৎকারভাবে ক্রমঅনুযায়ী বর্ণনা করা হয়েছে।
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[name] => Dayarampur Rajbari
[post_id] => 17288
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Dayarampur Rajbari (দয়ারামপুর রাজবাড়ি) is located in Bagatipara Upazila, inside of the Qadirabad Cantonment under the administration of Bangladesh Army. After taking the oath of the Zamindari, Pramadanath (প্রমদানাথ) Roy (1873-1925), the elder son of then Dighapatia King Promothonath (প্রমথনাথ) Roy (1849-1883), established the Junior Raj Dayarampur Estate in a place named Nondikuza (নন্দীকুজা) on the bank of river Boral and built this Rajbari for his three younger brothers. They are Kumar Bosontokumar Roy (1874-1925), Kumar Sharatkumar Roy (1876-1946) and Kumar Hemendrakumar Roy (1877-1943).
This place was named after Dayaram (দয়ারাম) Roy (1680-1760), the great efficient Dewan of Queen Bhabani (1716-1795) of Natore and the establisher of Dighapatia Royal Family. After the death of Kumar Bosontokumar Roy, Kumar Sharatkumar Roy took the responsibility of the whole Dayarampur Estate and stayed this palace till death. After the eradication of Zamindar dominion, they went to India.
Source: History of Natore, by Samar Pal
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