Sonargaon The Historical Place

Sonargaon The Historical Place

Sonargaon The Historical Place

On the Dhaka-Chittagong highway about 29 km from Dhaka, Sonargaon is one of the oldest capitals of Bengal. It was the seat of Deva Dynasty until the 13th century. From that century onward till the advent of the Mughals, Sonargaon was the subsidiary capital of the Sultanate of Bengal.

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Sonargaon The Historical Place

Another name of Sonargaon was "The City of Panam". Now, the relies of uildings of the old dynasties, Goaldia Mosque and the Folklore Museum that houses artifacts from every cultural trait of the country increase the attractions of this place.

At Jainal Abedin Museum in Sonargaon, you will find somehistorical and archeological things. Among the ancient monuments still intact are the Tomb of Sultan Ghiasuddin (1399-1409 A. D), the shrines of Panjpirs and Shah Abdul Alia and a beautiful mosque in Goaldi village.

Sonargaon's importance in the pre-Muslim period is borne out by its ancient name of Suvarnagrama, from which it is obvious that the Muslim version of the name is derived, and by the existence of langalband and Panchamighat, the two traditional holy bathing places of the Hindus, in this tract of land on the west bank of the old Brahmaputra. Suvarnavithi, mentioned in a 6th century land grant, the Ghugrahati copper-plate of Samacharadeva, has been taken to denote this area. The 13th century local Hindu ruler Danujamadhava Dasharathadeva (Raja danuj rai of Ziauddin Barani) may have shifted his capital to Suvarnagrama from vikramapura sometime in the middle of the century. With the Muslim occupation of the vanga area, Sonargaon continued to be the administrative centre of southeastern Bengal till the rise of dhaka.

Independent Hindu rule in Sonargaon came to an end with the annexation of the area to the Muslim principality of lakhnauti by shamsuddin firuz shah in the beginning of the 14th century AD.

Though the fortune of Sonargaon was under a temporary eclipse from its annexation to the kingdom of Lakhnauti till the rise of ghiyasuddin bahadur shah, the city continued to be important as a port and a mint town. Sonargaon rose to be the seat of an independent ruler under Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah, and after his fall it was the headquarters of the eastern province of Bengal under the Tughlaqs till 1338. Sonargaon emerged as the capital of an independent Sultanate under fakhruddin mubarak shah (1338-1349) and his son ikhtiyaruddin ghazi shah (1349-1352).

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