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(Panam Nagar or Panam City is an earliest city of Sonargaon thana in Narayanganj district, about 2.5 kilometers to the north of Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Mograpara Point. Panam is only 0.5km away from Sonargaon Folk Art Museum. It is seemed to have been the city of Hindu capital city of Sonargaon.
Sonargaon (Bengali: সোনারগাঁও; meaning City of Gold) was a historic administrative, commercial and maritime center in Bengal. Situated in the center of the Ganges delta, it was the seat of the medieval Muslim rulers and governors of eastern Bengal. Sonargaon was described by numerous historic travelers, including Ibn Battuta, Ma Huan, Niccolò de' Conti and Ralph Fitch as a thriving center of trade and commerce.
It was an administrative center of Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah's sultanate, the Bengal Sultanate and the Kingdom of Bhati.
The name Sonargaon came as the Bangla version of the ancient name Suvarnagrama. Buddhist ruler Danujamadhava Dasharathadeva shifted his capital to Suvarnagrama from Bikrampur sometime in the middle of the 13th century. In early 14th century, Bauddha ruling in this area ended when Shamsuddin Firoz Shah (reigned 1301–1322) of Lakhnauti occupied and annexed it to his kingdom.
Panam Nagar, the gorgeous structures was rising in the last quarter of the 13th century. After that Panam area formed part of Muslim city developed on the old city, and perhaps made up the place of residence of the early Muslim governors.
When the Mughal took over the control of Sonagaon, they constructed highways and bridges and made a new look of Sonagaon and Panam City. Mughal era was the most significant era for all the region of sub-continent. Panam city has no different for this circumstances.
In the last of 19th century, Panam city was built in Sonargaon. That time, business of cotton and other cloths were developed based on the Panam city. That time, Sonargaon got it heritage back a little. In the first part of the 20th century, some rich Hindu businessmen started to live permanently in the city. The still remaining ruins of the buildings were the residence of those businessmen. In those days, no city at the east Bengal was near as wealthy as Panam. This city is now in ruins.
The building structures in Panam Nagar are both separated and joined types, typically rectangular in shape and extended in the north-south direction. Height of the buildings varies from single to three storied. According to building layout design the residence houses of Panam can be categorized into three basic types: central hall type, central courtyard type and consolidated type.
All the buildings in the city was built facing a single road, which is 5 miter long and 600 miter wide. In the city still remains 52 buildings. The whole city is surrounded with artificial canals. These canals was dug to protect the city from any outside attack. There was only one bridge to enter the city in the west side. Back of every building is a pond. These ponds was used for household works.
After the 1965 war of India-Pakistan, Hindu businessmen started to leave, and the city was deserted. World monument fund listed Panam city in the World 100 ruined city in 2006.)
The prison complex is almost like a little city, it is very easy to get lost and confused while inside.
On the left is the workshop, on the right is the Psychiatric Treatment Center (Extended tours only) and straight ahead is the kitchen (Off limits).
from the "Invisibles Cities" by Italo Calvino. This is just a practise version; that is, I am still messing around with PS. So I have an excuse with the roughness
The weekend before Christmas... bags a-plenty on the escalators, but not as rammed as you might expect
Bunhill Field, an ancient City of London burial ground. It is actually in LB Islington. Seen with Spring daffodils.
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L'viv, Ukraine. City square from the top of the city hall tower (396 steps to the top). Great views, but it was raining and windy, so it wasn't easy to take pictures. The lens was soon covered in raindrops.
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The statue of the carabao serves as the centerpiece of the landmark depicting the city as the “cattle capital of the Philippines” and giving tribute to the “beast of burden” for its strength, determination and resiliency. The landmark, which cost P3 million, is located at the right corner of the new city public market. It is a granite statue of a carabao, the city’s official log, and has backdrop of granite wall tempered with cascading man-made waterfall. It has drawn attraction among the city residents and visitors.http://northwatch.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/urdaneta-city-unveils-landmark/
Newly ordained Bishop Paul Tighe, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin, greets the faithful during his ordination to the episcopate in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on 27 February 2016.
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Kite Aerial Photograph
A few weekends ago I took some time to explore the UNAM campus, this place is huge! I think I walked for over an hour and was still well within the campus.