Lalbagh Fort

This fort of Aurangabad, popularly known as the Lalbagh Fort, was inbuilt 1678 AD by the then Viceroy of Bengal Prince Mohammad Azam, son on the Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb. The fort has a three storied structure with slender minarets for the South Gate. It has many hidden passages and a mosque connected with massive structure. Outstanding among the monuments of the Lalbagh Fort are classified as the Tomb of Pari Bibi (Fairy lady) and Crowd room and Hummam Khana (bathing place) of Nawab Shaista Khan, at this point housing a museum.

The fort was the scene of bloody battle over the first war of independence (1857) when 260 spays stationed here backed because of the people revolted against British forces. It is one of the good historical places of Mughal era. A small museum is there in this fort where you'll discover the clothes and weapons of the Mughols.

Lalbagh fort

Lalbagh fort was in the old town of Dhaka at Lalbagh. It is start 10 am-5 pm Sunday to Friday & Saturday is finished.

The capital city Dhaka predominantly was a city of this Mughals. In hundred years of their vigorous rule successive Governors in addition to princely Viceroys who ruled the province, adorned it with many noble monuments from the shape of magnificent places, mosques, tombs, fortifications and 'Katras' often surrounded with beautifully spelled out gardens and pavilions. Among these, few have survived the ravages of their time, aggressive tropical climate of the land and vandal hands connected with man.

But the finest specimen of this period is this Aurangabad Fort [commonly known as Lalbagh Fort], which indeed represents the unfulfilled dream of any Mughal Prince. It occupies the southwestern part of the older city, overlooking the Buriganga on whose northern bank it stands to be a silent sentinel of the old city.

Rectangular in plan, it encloses an area of 1082' by 800' and therefore to its graceful lofty gateways on southeast and northeast corners as well as a subsidiary small unpretentious gateway on north, it also contains within its fortified perimeter quite a few splendid monuments, surrounded by attractive garden. These are a modest 3-domed mosque, the mausoleum of Bibi Pari the reputed daughter of Nawab Shaista Khan along with the Hammam and Audience Hall of the Governor. The main purpose of this fort was to provide some sort of defensive enclosure of the palatial edifices of the interior thus was a type of palace-fortress rather than a siege fortification.