The capital city Dhaka predominantly was a city
of the Mughals. In hundred years of their vigorous rule successive
Governors and princely Viceroys who ruled the province, adorned it with
many noble monuments in the shape of magnificent palaces, mosques,
tombs, fortifications and Katras often surrounded with beautifully laid
out gardens and pavillions. Among these, a few have survived the ravages
of time, aggressive tropical climate of the land and vandal hands of
man.
But the finest specimen of this period is the Aurangabad
Fort, commonly known as Lalbagh Fort, which indeed represents the
unfulfilled dream of a Mughal Prince. It occupies the south-western part
of the old city, overlooking the Buriganga on whose northern bank it
stands as a silent sentinel of the old city. Rectangular in plan, it
encloses an area of 1082' by 800' and in addition to corners and a
subsidiary small unpretentious gateway on north, it also contains within
its fortified. perimeter a number of splendid monuments, surrounded by
attractive garden. These are, a small 3-domed mosque, the mausoleum of
Bibi Pari, the reputed daughter of Nawab Shaista Khan and the Hammam and
Audience Hall of the Governor. The main purpose of this fort, was to
provide a defensive enclosure of the palatial edifices of the interior
and as such was a type of palace-fortress rather than a seize-fort.
Source: Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation
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