Bangabhaban

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Bangabhaban in Dhaka

The Bangabhaban Bengali বঙ্গভবন (“House of Bengal”) is a building complex in Dhaka and the official residence of the President of Bangladesh . Prior to 1947, at the time of British India , the building was one of the residences of the British Viceroy and Governor General of India . The Governor General of East Pakistan resided here from 1947 to 1971 .

history

In 1905 the division of the Bengal Presidency was split into two new provinces, Bengal and East Bengal and Assam . The province of Bengal kept the old provincial capital, Calcutta, and Dacca (today: Dhaka) was selected as the capital of the new province. From 1905 to 1911 the Governor House , today's Bangabhaban, was built as a representative administration building in the British Mughal style. The first governor of the new province, Joseph Bamfylde Fuller , took his seat in the new residence on February 14, 1906. The partition of Bengal was reversed in 1911 under the pressure of public agitation and Dacca lost its role as the seat of the provincial government again to Calcutta. After the end of the British colonial era, the building became the seat of the Governor General of East Pakistan in 1947. In 1961 the building was damaged by a storm and was reconstructed until 1964. In the 1971 Bangladesh war , the building again suffered significant damage, which was removed. After East Pakistan became independent in 1971 under the name of Bangladesh, the building was given its current name and became the seat of the President.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the opening, a 400-page commemorative publication 'Hundred Years of Bangabhaban' was published in English and Bengali, which was presented to the public in a small ceremony on February 15, 2006 in the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban was presented.

location

The building is located in the capital, Dhaka, in approximately 23.5 hectares of walled land, south of the Dilkhusha business district and southwest of the Motijheel business district .

Web links

Commons : Bangabhaban  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 'Hundred Yrs of Bangabhaban' launched. The Daily Star, February 15, 2006, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  2. ^ Clifford Edmund Bosworth: Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2007, p. 107 ISBN 978-90-04-15388-2

Coordinates: 23 ° 43 '23.89 "  N , 90 ° 25' 4.15"  E