Museum and gallery, Noakhali
Gandhi Ashram, Jayagগান্ধী আশ্রম, জয়াগ
- Time needed
- An hour.
- best months
- Nov–Feb
- Cost
- Free; donations.
The ashram at Jayag in Sonaimuri where Gandhi stayed during his peace walk through Noakhali in 1946–47, kept by a trust since 1975: a memorial museum, the old house, and workshops that still train villagers.
Plan your visit
- Opening
- Daily in working hours; ask at the office.
At a glance
- Gandhi here
- November 1946 – March 1947
- Trust since
- 1975
About
After the Noakhali riots of October 1946, Gandhi came and walked from village to village for four months. The house at Jayag, given by the zamindar Barrister Hemanta Kumar Ghosh, was his base, and after Independence his follower Charu Chowdhury kept it going through prison and partition. The trust formed in 1975 runs it now: a museum of photographs and the few objects of his stay, his room, a library, and projects in weaving, farming and schooling for the villages around.
It is a quiet place in a Hindu-Muslim village that remembers why he came.
Getting there: CNG from Sonaimuri or Bajra bazar on the Cumilla road, about 15 minutes.
Things to do
- See his room and the photographs of the walk.
Good to know
- Pair it with the Bajra Shahi mosque, 15 minutes away.
