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The present two-storey rectangular palace was built in 1895 by Maharani Hemanta Kumari Devi in an attractive Indo-European style. The front pillars, ornamentation, woodwork, and floral and vine paintings on the room walls and above the doors show fine craftsmanship. The roof is flat and made of iron beams, wooden rafters, and tiles. A moat was dug around the palace for security. There are six royal ponds (dighi) around the palace, each covering about six acres, as well as six temples.
Puthia Rajbari is a palace in Puthia Upazila, Rajshahi District in Bangladesh. It was built in 1895, by Maharani Hemanta Kumari Devi in the memory of her mother-in-law Maharani Saratsundari Devi, it is an example of Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture. The palace is sited on the Rajshahi Natore highway 30 km from the east of the town and one km south from Rajshahi Natore highway. Currently it houses a museum narrating the history of Puthia and its adjoining area.
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Salam's Math
A square temple, 4.25 m on each side, with doorways in the east and south walls. The arched east doorway is the main entrance, and it is decorated on both sides and above with terracotta plaques. The south doorway has little decoration. The temple has a tall shikhara (spire) roof topped with a finial, and its cornices and corners are finely decorated with terracotta plaques. The outer west wall is plain. Inside, the west and north walls each have a niche, which was usually used to hold a lamp.
Built in the 19th century. It has the architectural feature of five ratnas or spires.
One of the temples next to Puthia Rajbari.
An old mosque in Durgapur Upazila, a short distance from Rajshahi city. It was built around 1500 and is a protected archaeological site listed by the Department of Archaeology of Bangladesh.
A historical mosque situated in Bagha, Rajshahi. There is a picture of this mosque in one side of the Tk 50 note.
Garden on the banks of Padma River.