Heritage
Beaches, hills, tea gardens and centuries of history. Find your next trip, then book the bus to get there.
- HeritageChuadanga, 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.- HeritageMeherpur, KhulnaAmjhupi NeelkuthiA 19th-century indigo planters’ house by the Kazla River, among old trees, recalling the days of indigo cultivation in Bengal.
- HeritageBrahmanbaria, 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.- HeritageTangail, DhakaAtia MosqueA Mughal-era mosque from 1609 with rich terracotta decoration, beside the Louhajang river; it once appeared on the ten-taka note.
- HeritageMunshiganj, 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.
- HeritageRajshahiBagha MosqueA ten-domed mosque from the early 16th century, rich in terracotta decoration.
- HeritageNoakhali, 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.
- HeritageThakurgaon, 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”.
- HeritageManikganj, 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.
- HeritageJhenaidah, KhulnaBarobazar MosquesA cluster of Sultanate-period brick mosques, many uncovered from earth mounds by excavation, around an old settlement on the Jashore–Jhenaidah highway.
- HeritageChattogramBayazid Bostami ShrineA hilltop shrine, known for the rare turtles that live in its pond.
- HeritagePanchagarh, 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.
- HeritageBarguna, 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.
- HeritageBandarban, 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.
- HeritageChuadanga, 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.
- HeritageRangpurCarmichael 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.
- HeritageKishoreganj, 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.
- HeritageChattogramChittagong War CemeteryA quiet, well-kept Commonwealth cemetery for soldiers of the Second World War.
- HeritageChapainawabganj, 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.- HeritageKhulnaDakshindihi Rabindra ComplexThe village home of Mrinalini Devi, Rabindranath Tagore’s wife, preserved as a small museum north of Khulna.
- HeritageChapainawabganj, 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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