Bagerhat - বাগেরহাট

Bagerhat - বাগেরহাট Bagerhat-বাগেরহাট District is a district in South-west Bangladesh.It is a part of the Khulna Division Bagerhat is a great historical place.
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Bagerhat city is famous for its mosques. Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali founded this town. He was just and a great saint of the fifteen century. At the time of his reign, Bagerhat was a part of the Sunderban forest. He cleared the forest and made it habitable. He named it Khalifabad. He erected many official buildings to run his administration. He also built many mosques and dug tanks. The buildings erecte

d by him are now all in ruins. The city of Bagerhat has been given the status of a World Heritage Site. This honour was conferred by UNESCO in 1973. Located at the confluence of two historical rivers, the Brahmaputra River and the Ganges, Bagerghat is also known as the Mosque City for the presence of a large number of mosques in the district. The domed structures of the mosques built with bricks in the 15th century is considered an architectural marvel.[4]

Bagerhat was declared a district in 1984. The district today is the fourth largest district in Bangladesh at the basis of area. Bagerhat-বাগেরহাট #বাগেরহাট

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