Bangladesh’s largest museum, covering the country’s history from its geological formation through 1971, in the heart of Shahbagh.
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Bangladesh’s National Temple, believed by tradition to be the source of Dhaka’s name, and the center of the city’s Hindu religious life.
Sadarghat is Old Dhaka’s working river port on the Buriganga, alive with launches and cargo boats. A guide to visiting this historic waterfront.
A 19th-century Old Dhaka mosque famous for chinitikri mosaic work, thousands of porcelain fragments arranged into star patterns.
The Pink Palace of the Nawabs of Dhaka, now a riverfront museum of 19th-century aristocratic life in Bengal.
An unfinished 17th-century Mughal fort on the Buriganga, home to Bibi Pari’s marble tomb and a museum of Mughal-era artifacts.