All in One (Part 4-Ghor/House)

More pics from there:

Another feature of Mini Bangladesh is that it has replica of houses from all parts of Bangladesh:


This, as they say, is a Sylhet house.





And this, a Bogra House


You can see a "shan badhano pukur ghat" in front of this Jeshore house.


The "mother" is making "pitha puli" for her sons in this Khulna house (mothers from other places don't make so??)


In this Pabna house, this lady is selling Pabna special pitha puli (so we can say mothers from Pabna usually make pitha-puli to sell outsiders??... hmmm--- no wonder the only MH of BD is in Pabna....)

A replica of a Rangpur house. (can you see the kobutorer basha [pigeon holes] in front of it?)

Where is the Chittagong house?? Maybe I forgot to take a picture of it, cos I thought it was not representative of Chittagong houses... I can put up a million real pictures of Chittagong houses, also from my own Image gallery... :)

There are more pictures of Mini Bangladesh.. Maybe it will run to Part 5! But for now, I have to stop here..

So, till next time (wonder WHEN it comes though!),

~~Biday~~

All in One (Part 3)

You can guess I am in a blogging mood today! So, what I haven't done in the last few years, I am doing it now...

Yupp- more pics - from the same location again:


The most beautiful replica in the whole place is Shona Masjid (A historic Masjid). I wonder how beautiful the original piece is, this whole piece-even the replica- is a beauty! I had to take pictures of different bits and pieces of this building, as it's beauty was soo stunning!
The above picture is of the entrance. An important note: this is serving as the real Masjid at the place! So the size is, I believe, as the original (or very close).


Get a glimpse of just a pillar in the above pic.


A close up of one of the many designs covering all over its body.


Another bit from a wall.


One side of the walls of Shona Masjid...

It's so gorgeously built, I thought this Shona Masjid demanded a separate post.

All in one (part 2)

Sorry to be away for so long. I was in the middle of putting up pictures of this wonderful Zia Smriti (Memorial) Complex, also known as Mini Bangladesh (and Anando Bhubon).

Instead of blabbering any more, I better get started with posting pictures:


This is replica of the wonderful historic "Ahsan Manjil", the original one being located in Puran (Ancient) Dhaka. It is a very historic building, which used to be the residence of some "Nowab".
I haven't been to the original, so trying to do some "dudher shad ghole metano" with this.



The replica itself almost resembles the original, even the size of it is almost the size of original ( am no architect to give you the exact figure). You get the proof when you see the rear side of it- even the rear side is so meticulously accurate!


This is the Kantojir Mandir (the size not being so close to the original). You can see the signboard-unfortunately on the ground, which has it's name written on it.

Replica of the Historic Curzon Hall, which is a part of Dhaka University now. Have I been to the original? Can't recall.. Even if I have seen it from a distance, probably it wasn't a sight so memorable.. so I tried to make this sight of the replica memorable. The pic came dark, and I am still wondering whether I took the pic from the right side.. But who cares, lemme put it up on my blog first!

This is the BORO kuthi. There is one CHOTO kuthi as well. The original history is supposed to be something relating to Rabindranath Tagore. But I am not not a History student, so don't ask me more about it.

Oh yeah, it is where you get on the train- that's all I know about BORO kuthi.

And here comes the Choto Kuthi. Not sure what is this one's function in the park. And it's history? umm, err...