Places
Places worth seeing across Rajshahi Division, from Paharpur and Mahasthangarh to the city riverside.
Bagha Mosque
Built in 1523–24 by Sultan Nusrat Shah, a Sultanate-era mosque famous for its terracotta ornament.
Rajshahi
Bangabandhu Bridge
The 4.8 km bridge over the Jamuna, opened in June 1998, which connects the north to the rest of the country.
Sirajganj
Boro Kuthi
An eighteenth-century building put up by Dutch traders beside the Padma, later the first administrative building of Rajshahi University.
Rajshahi · Boalia
Chalan Beel
A vast seasonal wetland spread across Natore, Sirajganj and Pabna, rich in birds and fish and at its fullest in the monsoon.
Natore
Choto Sona Mosque
Built between 1493 and 1519 during the reign of Alauddin Husain Shah, and called the gem of Gaur.
Chapai Nawabganj
Darasbari Mosque
Built in 1479, a ruined Sultanate mosque standing about 500 metres west of the Choto Sona Mosque.
Chapai Nawabganj
Hardinge Bridge
The steel railway bridge over the Padma at Paksey, opened on 4 March 1915 and still carrying trains.
Pabna
Hatikumrul Navaratna Temple
A nine-spired temple built between 1704 and 1720 by a tahsildar named Ramnath Bhaduri.
Sirajganj
Kusumba Mosque
Built in 1558-59 under the Suri ruler Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah, and known as the black gem of Bangladesh.
Naogaon
Mahasthangarh
The oldest known city site in Bangladesh: the remains of Pundranagara, dating back to around 300 BCE.
Bogura
Natore Rajbari
The palace of Rani Bhabani, the zamindar whose estate once covered much of northern Bengal.
Natore
Padma Garden and the riverside
The embankment walk along the Padma, where the city gathers in the late afternoon.
Rajshahi · Shaheb Bazar
Patisar Kuthibari
The Tagore estate house at Patisar, one of the three places in this country associated with the poet's years managing the family lands.
Naogaon
Puthia Temple Complex
The largest group of historic Hindu temples in Bangladesh, 23 km east of the city, built by the Puthia Raj family.
Rajshahi
Shaheed A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman Central Park and Zoo
The city's large public park and zoo, created in 1972 and named after the national leader born here.
Rajshahi · Shah Makhdum
Shaheed Smriti Sangrahashala
Opened on 2 January 1972 at Rajshahi University, the first museum in the country devoted to the Liberation War.
Rajshahi · Motihar
Shahzadpur Kachharibari
The estate office where Rabindranath Tagore stayed while managing the family lands, and where he wrote some of his best-known work.
Sirajganj
Shrine of Hazrat Shah Makhdum Rupos
The shrine of the Sufi saint associated with the coming of Islam to the Varendra region.
Rajshahi · Rajpara
Somapura Mahavihara, Paharpur
A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. The eighth-century Buddhist monastery founded by the Pala ruler Dharmapala, and the most important archaeological site in the division.
Naogaon
Uttara Gonobhaban, Dighapatia
The 1734 palace of the Dighapatia Raj, set in about 43 acres and now the official residence of the head of state in the north.
Natore
Varendra Research Museum
Opened in 1910, the oldest museum in Bangladesh, holding around 19,000 artefacts from the Varendra region.
Rajshahi · Shaheb Bazar