Monument and memorial

Shrine of Bayazid Bostami

Chattogram

A hilltop shrine at Nasirabad attributed to the Persian Sufi Bayazid of Bastam, with a Mughal-era mosque and a pond full of the rare Bostami softshell turtles that pilgrims feed; busy every Thursday evening.

Chattogram Court Building

Chattogram

The red Indo-Saracenic court house of 1898 on Parir Pahar, Fairy's Hill, above the old town: domes, arcades and a long façade that still houses the district courts, with the river and the port spread out below.

Chittagong War Cemetery

Chattogram

The Commonwealth war cemetery of the Second World War, a lawn of 700-odd graves under the trees at Badsha Mia Road: soldiers and airmen of Britain, India, Africa, Burma, Japan and the Netherlands who died on the Burma front.

Samudra Bilas, Humayun Ahmed's house

Cox's Bazar

The seaside house the writer Humayun Ahmed built on the island's west beach; now a private guest house run by his family, seen by most visitors from the beach outside.

Rasti Shah Mazar, Shahrasti

Chandpur

The shrine of the 13th-century saint Rasti Shah, after whom Shahrasti upazila is named: a mazar, a mosque and a yearly urs that draws crowds from the whole region.

Bijoy '71

Mymensingh

Shyamal Chowdhury's sculpture of a farmer, a woman and a student fighting for independence, on the campus that was a Pakistani army headquarters in 1971.

Government Nazrul Academy (Darirampur School)

Mymensingh

The school of 1913 where Nazrul studied, with the two rooms he used kept as they were.

Mujibnagar Memorial Complex

Meherpur

The memorial at Mujibnagar, where Bangladesh's Provisional Government was sworn in on 17 April 1971 in a mango grove: a 23-step monument, sculptures of the war and a large relief map.

Birchandra Library and Town Hall

Cumilla

Cumilla Town Hall, built in 1885 on land given by Maharaja Birchandra Manikya of Tripura: a public library and hall in the colonial style that is still the centre of the city's cultural life.

Comilla War Cemetery

Cumilla

The Commonwealth war cemetery on the cantonment road: 736 graves of soldiers and airmen from the Burma front of the Second World War, kept as a quiet lawn under old trees.

Mausoleum of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Gopalganj

The tomb of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, in his home village of Tungipara.

Central Shaheed Minar

Dhaka

The monument to those killed in the 1952 language movement, beside Dhaka Medical College, where the whole country lays flowers on 21 February.

Curzon Hall

Dhaka

A red-brick hall of 1904 that mixes European and Mughal styles, now the science faculty of Dhaka University and one of the city's best-loved buildings.

National Martyrs' Memorial

Dhaka

The tall concrete monument at Savar to those who died in the 1971 Liberation War, standing in wide lawns, lakes and mass graves.

National Parliament House

Dhaka

Louis Kahn's concrete and brick seat of parliament at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, rising from a lake: one of the landmark buildings of the twentieth century.

Jashore Collectorate

Jashore

The handsome two-storey Collectorate at Dhaltana on the Bhairab, proposed in 1786 by the first collector, Tilman Henckell, and the district's office ever since; its riverside grounds are now an evening gathering place.

Padma Bridge

Munshiganj

The road and rail bridge over the Padma from Mawa in Lohajang to the Shariatpur and Madaripur side, opened on 25 June 2022.

Farrukh Ahmad's Home, Majhail

Magura

The family home and graveyard of Farrukh Ahmad, the 'poet of the Muslim renaissance', in his birth village of Majhail in Sreepur.

Pir Mokarram Ali's Dargah and Hazrapur Indigo Factory

Magura

A Sufi shrine on the Nabaganga at Ichakhada, 7 km west of Magura, beside the indigo factory at Hazrapur where the district’s 1856–60 indigo revolt began.

Kazi Kader Newaj's Home, Mujdia

Magura

The village home in Mujdia, Sreepur, where the poet Kazi Kader Newaj settled in 1952, and the library named after him.

Kamalpur battlefield and memorial

Jamalpur

The border post at Dhanua Kamalpur, Bakshiganj, where Sector 11 fought the Pakistan army from July to December 1971, one of the longest battles of the war; a memorial, the graves and now a land port beside it.

Mazar of Hazrat Shah Jamal

Jamalpur

The shrine of the saint the district is named for, on the Brahmaputra bank at the north-west edge of Jamalpur town; a mosque, the grave and a nine-day urs every year.

Mazar of Shah Kamal at Durmut

Jamalpur

The shrine of Hazrat Shah Kamal in Durmut, Melandaha, known for its month-long urs and Baishakhi fair every April and May, one of the biggest village fairs in the district.

Mazar of Sher Ali Gazi

Sherpur

The grave of the last Gazi zamindar of the Sherpur pargana, the man the district is named after, at Gazir Khamar about 10 km from town; an urs with a village fair every 1 Falgun.