Panam Nagar or Panam City is the soonest city of Sonargaon thana in Narayanganj region, about 2.5 kilometers toward the north of Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Mograpara Point. Panam is just 0.5km away from Sonargaon Folk Art Museum. It is esteemed to have been the city of the Hindu capital city of Sonargaon. Panam Nagar, the dazzling structures was ascending in the last quarter of the thirteenth century. After that Panam, the territory framed piece of Muslim city created in the old city and maybe made up the spot of the living arrangements of the early Muslim governors.
At the point when the Mughal assumed control over the control of Sonagaon, they developed thruways and connects and made another look of Sonagaon and Panam City. Mughal time was the most critical period for all the areas of sub-mainland. Panam city has the same for these conditions. A colossal measure of development works and improvements in the life of city occupants had been happening in the season of Mughal.
History of Panam City
Panam is the most established city in Bengal. The individuals of the rich Hindu people group once lived here. Was the muslin business of the muslin? There is nothing left in the antiquated city. Presently there are only a couple of memorable old houses. World Monument Fund distributed Panam Nagar in the rundown of 100 widely acclaimed notable establishments in 2006. Panam Nagar, the capital of the time of Isa Khan, was the capital of Bengal. The enormous urban areas, the city of Khas, Panam Nagar – Panam among the three urban areas of the old Sonargaon were the most fascinating. There are a few hundred old structures, which are identified with the historical backdrop of Bengal’s Barons. Situated close Sonargaon close Narayanganj exceptionally almost 27 km southeast of Dhaka, this city is situated in Sonargaon. The city creates around 20 square kilometers of Sonargaon. Generally, it is a city significant.
It is realized that in the 1400 century a college was set up where the minimal effort instructors of the world used to come to think about. It is realized that there was a worker advertise here. There are 52 foundations in the frontier time frame at the different sides of Panama City. There are 31 in the north and 21 in the south. In the design of the structures, a blend of Mughal creativity is seen with European craftsmanship. Panam City has been worked with impeccable structure. Pretty much every house has a well-selected scene with wells. For the city’s water supply, the number of waterways and lakes are taken note. Aside from private structures, there are spots of love, washroom, storeroom, darbar lobby, and so forth. There are more structures around the city of Panam, for example, little Sardar’s home, Isha Khan’s arcade, Nilkuthi, vendor settlement, Thakur house, Panam Nagar connect, and so on. There is likewise an entrancing people workmanship historical center here.
Ticket Price of Panam City
The ticket price for entering the foundation premises is 30 taka, for the foreigner. You do not need any separate ticket to enter the museum.
Panam City Car parking charge:
- Bicycle: 10 tk,
- CNG/Motor bike: 25 tk,
- Car, SUVs, Vans (Noah/Hiace): 100 tk.
- Coastal: 200 Tk.
- Bus: 300 Tk.
Boat riding on the lake: There is an arrangement of riding paddle-wheel boats on the lake inside the museum premises. The ticket price for boat riding is 20 taka per person for 30 minutes.
Panam City Opening Hour:
Summer season (April- September):
- Tuesday-Saturday: 10.00 Am – 06.00 Pm.
- Museum Galleries: 10.30 Am – 05.30 Pm.
- Friday: 12.30 Pm – 02.30 Pm, Museum galleries closed for prayer.
Winter season (October- March):
- Tuesday-Saturday: 09.00 Am – 05.00 Pm.
- Museum Galleries: 09.30 Am – 04.30 Pm.
- Friday: 12.30 Pm – 02.30 Pm, Museum galleries closed for prayer.
Panam City Off Day:
- Wednesday & Thursday: Closed.
- Government Holidays: Closed.
Contact Number: For any inquiry regarding sonargaon Folk-Arts and Crafts Museum, you can call their official IVR based help desk no 09604 000 777 or land phone no 02- 7656331.
Address, Location (How to go): Go to Gulistan bus stand at dhaka, take a bus to Moghrapara Bus service called “Meghla” goes to moghrapara. From Moghrapara , take a rickshaw to sonargaon, museum. Bus service to sonargaon also available from chasara at Narayangang.
Most attractive Things (What you can see there):
Most likely, the present Panamnagar developed as a side-effect of the business exercises of the English East India Company and of the Permanent Settlement. The East India Company set up its processing plant in Panam for the buy of muslin and other cotton textures. The Company, for the buy of muslin, used to disseminate every year to the weavers from their manufacturing plant in Panam as much as a lakh of rupees as (Dadni framework advance), and it is assessed that there were then 1400 groups of Hindu and Muslim weavers in and around Panam.
Sonargaon formed into a focal point of exchange cotton textures, primarily English piece merchandise, during the pioneer time frame, and along these lines developed the new township of Panamnagar. A gathering of Hindu talukdars, who appeared from among the dealers in the nineteenth century, picked this site for their living arrangement. The current block structures of Panamnagar, clearly the living arrangement of the Hindu dealer talukdars, can be gone back to mid nineteenth, and the later ones to the late nineteenth and mid twentieth hundreds of years. Panamnagar which created in the nineteenth century kept on prospering till the part of the arrangement World War.
Panamnagar, a one of a kind township, extended in a solitary road 5 meters wide on the normal and 600 meters long. Every one of the structures have the character of urban road front houses and are arranged on either side of this road which winds up at the Panam bazar. Fifty-two houses exist in weather beaten and neglected condition having 31 in the north side of the road and 21 on the south. Panamnagar gives off an impression of being all around ensured by counterfeit waterways all around. Two genuinely wide trenches run parallel to the road on either side and joined by a tight waterway on the western side over which is the passageway connect (Panamnagar Bridge). On the eastern side, the trench on the south swerves rightward and goes eastbound intersection the north-South Street that goes through the Panam bazar. The northern trench, the Pankhiraj Khal, runs eastbound to meet the Meghna-Menikhali stream.
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