ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
ASGHAR ALI JAME - E - MOSQUE
HALISHAHAR, CHATTOGRAM
Further northwest, in the countryside surrounding the city of Dinajpur, lies the breathtaking 18th century Kantaji Temple, sometimes called Kantanagar. One of the most famous Hindu temples in the country, it was built by maharaja Pran Nath and is typical of the royal Mughal architecture. Admire the intricate designs of the facade, covered with plaques and panels crafted from terracotta and brick, to create frescoes telling the legendary stories of the Ramayana.
KANTANAGER TEMPLE
THE CONTEMPORARY AND ANCIENT ARCHITECTURAL WONDERS OF BANGLADESH
KANTANAGER TEMPLE
THE CONTEMPORARY AND ANCIENT ARCHITECTURAL WONDERS OF BANGLADESH
Further northwest, in the countryside surrounding the city of Dinajpur, lies the breathtaking 18th century Kantaji Temple, sometimes called Kantanagar. One of the most famous Hindu temples in the country, it was built by maharaja Pran Nath and is typical of the royal Mughal architecture. Admire the intricate designs of the facade, covered with plaques and panels crafted from terracotta and brick, to create frescoes telling the legendary stories of the Ramayana.
Further northwest, in the countryside surrounding the city of Dinajpur, lies the breathtaking 18th century Kantaji Temple, sometimes called Kantanagar. One of the most famous Hindu temples in the country, it was built by maharaja Pran Nath and is typical of the royal Mughal architecture. Admire the intricate designs of the facade, covered with plaques and panels crafted from terracotta and brick, to create frescoes telling the legendary stories of the Ramayana.
NAACH GHAR
DANCE HOUSE
"Naach Ghar" ( Dance House ) was built by Landlord Pratap Aditya. It's a 100 years old dance house used during the British Period in Chittagong. Local landlords used to arrange dance parties here. After the British period, the building was used as a regional office of fire service. Naach Ghar holds the red brick beauty of the British Era.
SOMAPURA MAHAVIHARA
PAHARPUR, BADALGACHHI UPAZILA, NAOGAON DISTRICT, BANGLADESH
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” - Gautama Buddha
It’s Buddha Purnima!
Buddha Purnima, also known as Vesak, marks the birth anniversary of Lord Buddha. The day is celebrated across the world with a lot of excitement. Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born as Prince Siddhartha Gautama around 563 BC at Lumbini in modern-day Nepal. His birth anniversary falls on the full moon day of the month of Baisakh.
One Of The Oldest Buddhist Viharas In Bangladesh!Somapura Mahavihara (Bengali: সোমপুর মহাবিহার Shompur Môhabihar) in Paharpur, Badalgachhi Upazila, Naogaon District, Bangladesh is among the best known Buddhist viharas in the Indian Subcontinent and is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country. It is also one of the earliest sites of Bengal, where significant amount of Hindu statues were found. It was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. It dates from a similar time period to the nearby Halud Vihara and to the Sitakot Vihara in Nawabganj Upazila of Dinajpur District.
TRADITIONAL HOUSE OF MUNSHIGONG
HUDA MOHAMMED FAISAL
Munshiganj is a historic place in Bangladesh. Traditional house of Munshigang is really eye-catching and has unique pattern. Typically, a homestead develops around a courtyard. Normally, a homestead is situated in a higher place surrounded by a low land/marshy pond. The houses are a modular stilt house. This type of house also resembles a traditional Japanese house with a wooden frame and a white background. Each room has multiple windows which makes it a pavilion house and it is the ideal house scenario for tropical context.
There are three types of houses such as two storey houses, one and half storey houses and one storey houses. Wooden modular frame for the façade, modular window, wooden ladder, tin (also called as Japani Tin), ornamented modular wooden parts and joints are available in the market. Interestingly, the shops use to display the whole house in their shop and people use to come to the shop to buy the modular house. Also, people can order a customized house. Building a traditional house is a big industry in Munshiganj.
The house of Munshiganj has a character of impermanence because of river erosion. River erosion is a big concern for the people of Munshiganj. During the monsoon season, river erosion happens and everything uses to be engulfed by the mighty Padma river. It makes people homeless and landless. People need to shift their houses in times of erosion. When the erosion starts, people use to knock down their houses within two hours and they shift their houses by boat or truck to a safer place. It takes one to two weeks to rebuild the house in a safer place. It’s a quite unique traditional house. Inhabitants of Munshiganj are proud of living in this mobile house and show respect to this cultural heritage of this locality. It gives people of Munshiganj dignity and identity. This good practice helps to preserve the traditional houses all around Minshiganj.
CREDIT
Dilruba Ferdous Shuvra
Grammo and REVIVAL
INTERPRETING RURAL : DIOXIADIS VIS - À - VIS EAST PAKISTAN
FARHAN KARIM
"The Pakistani state’s narrative of "rural backwardness" as a pretext to impose "rural
development" was a way of imposing an imaginary "national culture" over the country’s
diversified population. Doxiadis, a government-employed foreign expert, reinterpreted the state’s
narration of East Pakistan’s rural backwardness with the objective of challenging the state’s
reductive notion of its Bengali citizens. Instead of considering rural backwardness as the
opposite of progress-oriented urban culture, Doxiadis questioned the Pakistani state’s very notion
of planning and architecture, which was rigidly tied to the colonial perception of land and
monument."
REFERENCE:
Farhan Karim, “Interpreting Rural: Doxiadis vis-à-vis East Pakistan”, South Asia Chronicle
9/2019, 243-280.
PAPER LINK:
https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/21738