Set for Eid-ul-Azha on Jan 01, 2007

Queue for ticket- Kamalapur railway station, Dhaka

Overloaded bus


Homebound passengers to celebrate the Eid-ul-Azha

Market bound cattles

Cattles occupy second Buriganga bridge approach deck at Nayabazaar

Camels from India fetch high price

'King of the market'- a bull from Faridpur with price tag of Tk.12 Lakh (US$17,400 approx)

Old Dhaka scenes and Minarets

Dhaka Central Jail Entrance

Aerial view of Central Jail

The Moghuls built their main fort here. When capital of the Subah-i-Bangala was shifted from Dhaka to Murshidabad in about 1717, Dhaka was made the seat of a Deputy-Governor of a sub-province comprising approximately of the greater part of present Bangladesh. The deputy-governor resided in one of the many abandoned palaces or forts of Dhaka. In 1763, the British Army officers stormed the city and occupied the fort. It was subsequently turned into Dhaka Central Jail in 1883 when other structures were built around it, and is the largest and oldest jail of Bangladesh. Over 11,000 detainees and convicts (about 250 of them women) are squashed into this prison originally built for 2,650 detainees.

Left: Central Jail watch tower and Minaret of mosque behind; Right: Guard of a local bank



Road over Dholai khal (canal) and mushrooming of second hand spare-parts shops

Second Buriganga bridge connecting Badamtali ghat to Jinjira

Bridge ghat ferry boats at Badamtali

Approach deck of the bridge - Badamtali end

Unauthorised trading shops grow underneath bridge deck

Mosques at Dholai khal (left) and Hatkhola (right)

Market and mosque at Tikatuli

Some old buildings and Mosques in Lalbagh, Dhaka

Lalbagh Shahi Mosque - South view (Shaista khan Road)

East view (Kazi Reazuddin Road) near 'Posta'

Lalbagh Shahi Mosque minaret

Lalbagh Shahi Mosque, also known as Farrukh Siyar Mosque, is located within a few yards of the southern gate of the Lalbagh Fort at Dhaka. This is the largest Mughal mosque in Bangladesh, capable of accommodating some 1500 devotees at a time. It was built by Prince Farrukh Siyar between 1703 and 1706, while he was at Dhaka as a representative of his viceroy father Prince Azim-us-Shan. Due to a series of repair and extension works, the mosque now gives a contemporary look. A new minaret was built. The mosque still retains its original layout. Its outer dimension is 49.99m from north to south and 16.46m from east to west. Internally, it is 47.85m by 14.33m and the thickness of the walls is 1.07m only.

Small shops beside Fort south wall (Kazi Reazuddin Road)

Vegetable market at 'Killar Mor' (road junction of the Fort)

Outside view of Lalbagh Fort south wall and west kiosk

South West corner of Lalbagh Fort kiosk [outside view - Killar Mor ]

Jagannath Saha Road originating from south west corner of Lalbagh Fort [ Killar Mor connects Nawabganj in the west ]

Old Mansion of Jagannath Saha which bears the name of the road

Electrical shop for second hand gadgets on the road

Mosque at Jagannath saha road

A mosque on Lalbagh road

The Khan Mohammad Mridha Mosque on Lalbagh road is situated less than half a kilometre west of the Lalbagh Fort, in an area called Atish Khana in old Dhaka. Two Persian inscriptions - one over the central archway and the other over the central Mihrab, speak of its construction during 1704-05 AD by one Khan Muhammad Mridha. The name of the mosque is after its builder.

The large platform is 38.10m from north to south and 28.96m from east to west. It's height is about 5.18m from the ground level. Underneath the platform, are vaulted rooms on all sides except the eastern side. In the eastern side, there is a stairway which ends with a gateway aligning the central doorway of the mosque proper. It is through this gateway that one can reach the top of the platform.

Also see Lalbagh Area and Fort Incident.

A MoU for national election creates confusion

Saikhul Hadith Allama Azizul Huq of Khelafat Majlish (Left) and Abdul Jalil of AL

Nobel laureates meet at Dhaka

Bengali Nobel Laureates meet: Prof. Amartya Sen (L) and Prof. Muhammad Yunus meet at Dhaka on 25 December 2006

at Osmani Memorial Auditorium, Dhaka, on Dec 25 during the inauguration of 'Manikganj Utsab 2006'

Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus (3rd from Left) shakes hands with Nobel laureate Amartya Sen (left) at a function in the National Museum auditorium Dhaka on 25 December 2006. Chairperson ('Ain O Adalat'-famed) Fazle Hasan Abed (2nd from Left) and American international financier & philanthropist George Soros look on.

Christmas at Dhaka

Armenian Church and St. Thomas Anglican Church

Tejgaon church




Kakrail church

Devotees attend the Christmas service

International Christian Church, Baridhara


International Christian Church, Baridhara