River, lake and haor, Feni

Rajajhir Dighiরাজাঝির দীঘি

Time needed
Half an hour.
best months
Nov–Feb
Cost
Free.

The tank at the centre of Feni town, around which the subdivision offices were built in 1875: the court mosque, the thana, the officers' club and a children's park all stand on its banks.

At a glance

Town centre since
1875

About

Legend gives the dighi to a Tripura king's daughter (raja-jhi, the king's daughter), which is where the name comes from; its date is unknown. What is certain is that when the British made Feni a subdivision in 1875 they built around this water, and the town has kept it as its centre since. A paved walk circles it, and the mosque on the west bank is the town's main one.

Getting there: Walk from the station or Trunk Road.

Things to do

  • Walk the circuit and sit by the court mosque.

Good to know

  • It is the middle of town; evenings are busy.

Getting there

Read the Feni guide

Nearby

River, lake and haorওসমানগনী · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bijoy Singha Dighi

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A 37-acre tank 2 km west of the town in front of the circuit house, said to have been dug by Bijoy Sen, founder of the Sen dynasty, in the 12th century: the town's walk and picnic ground.

Mosque and shrineAmdadhossain · CC BY-SA 4.0

Mohammad Ali Chowdhury Mosque, Sharshadi

8 km, Feni

A late-Mughal mosque at Sharshadi outside Feni town, built in the 1760s by the Mughal deputy Mohammad Ali Chowdhury: three domes, thick walls and plaster panels, protected and still in use.

Mosque and shrineAmdadhossain · CC BY-SA 4.0

Chand Gazi Bhuiyan Mosque

12 km, Feni

A Mughal mosque of 1712 at Chhagalnaiya, built by the local zamindar Chand Gazi Bhuiyan: three domes, terracotta ornament and a tank, one of the two protected monuments of the district.

Fort and palace

Shamsher Gazi's fort and dighi

18 km, Feni

The earthwork fort, tank and tunnel mouth at Jagannath Sonapur and Champaknagar in Chhagalnaiya, where Shamsher Gazi, the peasant rebel who took Roshnabad and Tripura in 1748, had his seat until his death in 1760.

River, lake and haorNibid Anowar · CC BY-SA 4.0

Muhuri Project

20 km, Feni

The closure dam and regulator at Sonagazi where the Feni, Muhuri and Kalidas-Pahaliya rivers meet, the country's second-largest irrigation scheme: a long embankment, a 40-gate sluice, wind turbines and the sea beyond.

River, lake and haorIqbal45567 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Musapur Closure

27 km, Noakhali

The dam across the Little Feni river at Musapur in Companiganj, built in 2015 to hold the tide back: a 23-gate regulator, a planted forest and a long embankment that became the district's sunset spot.

Location

Rajajhir Dighi, Feni
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