Heritage
Beaches, hills, tea gardens and centuries of history. Find your next trip, then book the bus to get there.
Illustrative photoHeritageChuadanga, KhulnaAat KoborThe “Eight Graves”: a memorial where eight freedom fighters killed in a battle in 1971 lie buried side by side.
HeritageDhakaAhsan ManzilThe pink palace of the Nawabs of Dhaka, now a museum.
Illustrative photoHeritageMeherpur, KhulnaAmjhupi NeelkuthiA 19th-century indigo planters’ house by the Kazla River, among old trees, recalling the days of indigo cultivation in Bengal.
Illustrative photoHeritageBrahmanbaria, ChattogramArifail MosqueA graceful Mughal-era mosque in a Sarail village, set beside a large old tank.
HeritageDhakaArmenian ChurchA church from 1781, built by Dhaka's community of Armenian merchants.
Illustrative photoHeritageTangail, DhakaAtia MosqueA Mughal-era mosque from 1609 with rich terracotta decoration, beside the Louhajang river; it once appeared on the ten-taka note.- Illustrative photoHeritageMunshiganj, DhakaBaba Adam’s MosqueA six-domed sultanate mosque built in 1483 at Rampal, the old seat of the Sena kings — one of the oldest standing buildings of the Dhaka region.
- Illustrative photoHeritageRajshahiBagha MosqueA ten-domed mosque from the early 16th century, rich in terracotta decoration.
- Illustrative photoHeritageNoakhali, ChattogramBajra Shahi MosqueA three-domed mosque from the Mughal period, set beside a large pond at Bajra — one of the finest old buildings in Noakhali.
- Illustrative photoHeritageThakurgaon, RangpurBalia MosqueA three-domed zamindar-era mosque near Bhulli, left without its domes for over a century and completed only in recent years — locally called the “jinn’s mosque”.
- Illustrative photoHeritageManikganj, DhakaBaliati Zamindar BariA row of grand nineteenth-century palace buildings with tall Corinthian columns, built by a merchant zamindar family and now protected by the Department of Archaeology.
- Illustrative photoHeritageJhenaidah, KhulnaBarobazar MosquesA cluster of Sultanate-period brick mosques, many uncovered from earth mounds by excavation, around an old settlement on the Jashore–Jhenaidah highway.
- Illustrative photoHeritageChattogramBayazid Bostami ShrineA hilltop shrine, known for the rare turtles that live in its pond.
Illustrative photoHeritagePanchagarh, RangpurBhitargarhThe earthen ramparts and moats of an ancient fortified city north of Panchagarh town, the largest of the “five forts” that gave the district its name.- Illustrative photoHeritageBarguna, BarishalBibichini Shahi MosqueA small Mughal-era mosque on a raised mound in Betagi, linked to the saint Shah Neamatullah, and the oldest standing monument in Barguna.
Illustrative photoHeritageBandarban, ChattogramBuddha Dhatu Jadi (Golden Temple)A gleaming golden Theravada Buddhist temple on a hilltop just outside Bandarban town, built in the Myanmar style and known to all as the Golden Temple.
Illustrative photoHeritageChuadanga, KhulnaCarew & Co., DarshanaOne of the oldest industrial works in Bangladesh: a sugar mill and distillery at the border town of Darshana, running since the 1930s amid old buildings and trees.
Illustrative photoHeritageRangpurCarmichael CollegeOne of the oldest and most beautiful colleges in northern Bengal, founded in 1916, with a long domed main building set in a wide green campus.
Illustrative photoHeritageKishoreganj, DhakaChandrabati’s Shiva TempleA slender old Shiva temple in Patuari village, linked to Chandrabati, the sixteenth-century poet often called the first woman poet of Bangla.
Illustrative photoHeritageChattogramChittagong War CemeteryA quiet, well-kept Commonwealth cemetery for soldiers of the Second World War.- Illustrative photoHeritageChapainawabganj, RajshahiChoto Sona MosqueA carved stone mosque from the Sultanate era, at the edge of the old capital Gaur.
HeritageDhakaCurzon HallA red-brick building from 1905 that blends European and Mughal styles.- Illustrative photoHeritageKhulnaDakshindihi Rabindra ComplexThe village home of Mrinalini Devi, Rabindranath Tagore’s wife, preserved as a small museum north of Khulna.
Illustrative photoHeritageChapainawabganj, RajshahiDarasbari Mosque and MadrasaThe roofless brick ruins of a 15th-century sultanate mosque and the excavated foundations of a great madrasa, in the fields of old Gaur near the border.
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