Gol Talaab/Nawab Bari Pukur

Type: Pond

Contributed By: Nayeem

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Brief

Gol Talaab or Gol Pukur is located at Islampur, just beside the Ahsan Manjil Palace. Local people used to call this as “Nawab bari pushkuni”. This is a round shaped large pond. Every side of the pond is occupied with buildings.

From the top of the building, you can enjoy the both buriganga river, and the pond. Also at the far side you can see the dome of the Ahsan Manjil Palace.

This pond was made during 1886 by Nawab Abdul Bari. That’s why some people used to call this as “Nawab Abdul Bari Pukur”. It’s a nice place to watch, especially from the top.

Now a days the Pond is monitored and managed by the “Moulovi Khawaja Abdullah Welfare Trust”. People used to take bath at this pond, but they have to pay for this. If you want to visit the place, you can take your shorts with you, so that you can throw your body at the water of the pond. It’s not that much high price to take a bath there.

How to go

How To Reach: Dhaka City

Most popular transport system in Dhaka city is Rickshaw. You can find available buses (Local or direct service) in coming inside or move outside Dhaka city. There are other transport systems like Trains, Rivers and Air.

Where to Stay

There are more than 71 quality hotel in Dhaka. Some are listed below…

1. Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka
107 , Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tel: +880 2 811 1005
Website : Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka

2. Ruposhi Bangla Hotel
1 Minto Road, Shahbagh, Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
Phone : 88-02-8330001
Fax : 88-02-8312975
Email : sales@ruposhibanglahotel.com
Website : Ruposhi Bangla Hotel

3. Radisson Water Garden Hotel, Dhaka
Airport Road, Dhaka Cantonment,
Dhaka 1206 Bangladesh.
Telephone: + 88 02 8754555
Fax: + 88 02 8754554 , + 88 02 8754504
Email : reservations.dhaka[at]radisson.com
Website : Radisson Water Garden Hotel
Dhaka Bangladesh

4. Dhaka Regency Hotel & Resort
Airport Road, Nikunja 2
Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh.
Phone : +88-02-8913912, +880 2 8900250-9
Fax : +88-02-8911479
Email : info@dhakaregency.com
Website : www.dhakaregency.com

5. Best Western La Vinci Hotel, Dhaka
54, Kawran Bazar,
Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh
Phone No : 880-2-9119352
Fax No : 880-2-9131218
E-mail : lavinci[at]bol-online.com ,
reservation[at]lavincihotel.com
Web : www.lavincihotel.com

6. The Westin Hotel
Main Gulshan Avenue,
Plot-01, Road 45, Gulshan-2
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
Phone : 88-02-9891988

7. Royal Park Residence Hotel
House no. 85, Road no. 25A
Block – A, Banani,
Dhaka 1213 Bangladesh.
Telephone: + 88 02 8815945/46
Fax: + 88 02 8815299
Email : hotelinfo[at]royalparkbd.com
Website : Royal Park Residence Hotel

8. Bengal Inn
House # 07, Road # 16,
Gulshan – 01
Dhaka 1212 Bangladesh.
Tel: +880 2 98880236, 9880610
Fax: +880 2 9880274
Email : info[at]bengalinn.com
Website : www.bengalinn.com

9. Hotel Sarina Dhaka
Plot #27, Road #17
Banani C/A,
Dhaka 1213 Bangladesh.
Tel: +880 2 8859604 -10, 8851040 -2, 8851011-4
Fax: +880 2 988-9989
Email : sales[at]sarinahotel.com, reservations[at]sarinahotel.com
Website : www.sarinahotel.com

Eating Facilities

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Map

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At the North Bengal Sugar Mills Ltd. at Gopalpur in Natore district, about one hundred innocent people, officers, laborers, staffs and others of the mills, were killed on the staircase of a pond in the main mill premises by machine gun burst-fire on May 5, 1971 by the beastly Pakistani soldiers. This holy pond is now called “Shaheed Sagar” by the local people.

On 1971 30th March in Lalpur Upazila, 4km to north of Gopalpur in Moynapur Village there was a war of Khan Senas. Next day when Major Reza Khan planned to escape he was shot by the public. In order to prevent Pakistani army for landing on the airport the local people demanding freedom broke the runway and maid the Iswardi Airport inactive. There was a horrendous condition in the town yet for the sake of sugar cane cultivators, each people were assigned individual responsibilities in the mills. In May 5 1971 despite the surrounding conditions Mill was active.

Then suddenly a group of Pakistani soldiers with the help of some Rajakaars entered the mill. The brush fired and killed the administrator Lt. Anwarul Azim and other employees of the mill. After killing them they left all the dead bodies in the pond. After Liberation this pond was named as Sagor Dighi. In 1973 in memory of Lt. Anwarul Azim Gopalpur railway station was named as Azimpur Station.

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This pond is a private property. This pond was dug in 1854 by Late Haji MD. Boduruddin or Votto Haji and his brother. The owner of this pond is very careful about this as its neat and clean. Every side of the pond is plastered well. Also they have kept a road at the every side of the pond, you can use that as your evening or morning walk.

According to the noticeboard, it is 930 ft. or 275 meter if you walk for one round at the pond's perimeter. So, six round will make you one mile, and 4 round will make you around 1 kilometer. They are encouraging the people to walk for good health.

Finally, you can take a bath at the pond's water. It will take only 2 taka per person for the bath. Local people take bath at the both ghat of the pond. There are a cool bridge at the proximity of the pond.

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Dafeul Bala is a pond adjacent to Tahkhana. It is said that if someone drinks its water than that person becomes cured free from diseases. The water of this pond is holy for all. For being free from all sorts of diseases religious conscious Muslims drink it. Many people gather here to drink its water.

It is said that during time of Shah Neymat Ullah the water of pond was polluted. Anyone drinking its water would result to death. Shah Neymat Ullah with few of his murids drank its water than it became pure.

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তাহখানার পাশেই একটি পুকুর হল দফিউল বালা। বলা হয়ে থাকে যে কেউ যদি এই পুকুরের পানি পান করে তবে তার রোগ মুক্তি ঘটবে। প্রত্যেকের কাছেই এই পুকুরের পানির আলাদা তাৎপর্য এবং পবিত্রতা আছে। সবরকমের রোগ থেকে মুক্তিলাভের আশায় ধর্মসচেতন মুসলমানরা এবং আরও অনেকেই এই পুকুরের পানি পান করেন।

বলা হয়ে থাকে যে শাহ নিয়ামত উল্লাহর সময়ে এই পুকুরের পানি এতটাই দুষিত ছিল যে এর পানি পান করলে মৃত্যু ঘটত। শাহ নিয়ামত উল্লাহ তাঁর কিছু মুরীদসহ এই পুকুরের পানি পান করার পর তা দূষণমুক্ত হয়।

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Shila Devir Ghat is an archaeological spot which is situated at the Mahasthangarh of Shibganj from Bogra district. This ghat is just around 200 meter apart from the Mahastangarh, and it’s beside the river Korotoa.

According to the legend, the Shila Devi was the beautiful daughter of the king Parshurama, some people used to say she was the sister of the King Porshurama. After the war with King Shah Sultan, Shila Devi jumped inside the water of the Korota River to save her honor, and drowned herself.

The spot is known as the Ghat of Shila devi. But the scholars are counting this story as a myth. They believe that the original name of the place was 'Shila Dvipa', that means the island of stone. Anyway, the Hindus used to celebrate the Paus Narayani Bath annually at here.

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