Local Weather Conditions Of Munshiganj District

Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 30°C / 87 °F

Morning Temperature	23°C / 74 °F
Evening Temperature	29°C / 84 °F
Night Temperature	25°C / 77 °F
Chance of rainfall	0%
Air Humidity	83%
Air Pressure	1011.3 hPa
Wind Speed	Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from North-East
Cloud Conditions	Few clouds, covering 24% of sky
General Conditions	Light rain Day: 32°C (90 °F) Night: 26°C (79 °F) Moderate rain, light breeze, clear sky. Day: 32°C (89 °F) Night: 27°C (81 °F) Moderate rain, light breeze, scattered clouds.

Places of Interest, district Munshiganj

Under the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh, there are 17 districts available, and Munshiganj is one of them. Also this district is just adjacent to the Capital City Dhaka. Long time back this district was renowned as "Bikrampur" or "Vikrampur". Now a days, people of that places still feel proud to call them from "Bikrampur".

Popular locations for visit:

If you are planning to visit the Munshiganj district, you can check the "places of interest", or "must see" items from the linkn  http://icwow.blogspot.com/search/label/munshiganj. Also if you visited any other places from Munshiganj, that is not listed at my link, that case you caadd that here as comment.

How to reach:

There are several transport is available from Dhaka to Munshiganj. The best two bus services are "Nayan Paribahan" and "Dhaka Transport", both of the buses used to start from "Gulistan" of dhaka. It will cost you 30-40 taka, and will require 1 hrs to 2 hrs bus journey depending upon the road traffic. Also there are other bus service is available from "Postogola" of dhaka, one of the bus is "Gangchil" available from that area.

Also you can hire CNG auto rickshaw from the "Postogola", and it will take you 250-350 to take you at Muktarpur bridge. Remember, if you are hiring CNG, make sure who will provide the toll of the bridge. For you information, the toll fee is 20 taka. So negotiate with the driver of CNG about who will provide the toll.

So far I have visited the below listed places from Munshiganj District.

MUNSHIGANJ SADAR::
1) Idrakpur fort, near at stadium.
2) Rampal Dighi at Rampal
3) Bollal Sen's House, North of the Rampal Dighi
4) Baba Adam Mosque, vill: koshba, union: rekabi bazar, Rampal, Sadar
5) Panchasar & Dhaleswari river bank

TONGIBARI::
1) Shonarong Jora Moth, Shonarong village, Tongibari Union

SHIRAJDIKHAN::
2) Tajpur Mosque & Tajpur Santi babur barir moth
3) math at the house of Kankata De at village Tajpur
6) Math at village Fegnasar

SREENAGAR::
2) ShamShiddhir Moth, Sreenagar bazaar, Sreenagar Thana
3) Arail Beel, Shamshiddhi

MAWA::
1) Mawa poddar par

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Bikrampur Vihara is an ancient Buddhist vihara at Raghurampur village, Bikrampur, Munshiganj District in Bangladesh.

Location

The monastery is located at Raghurampur village under Rampal Upazila of Munshiganj District.

History

The discovery was declared at 23 March 2013 after four years of excavation conducted jointly by Agrasar Bikrampur Foundation, a local sociocultural organisation, and Archaeology Department of Jahangirnagar University. The excavation was financed by Bangladesh's Ministry of Cultural Affairs.

On 23 March 2013, Director of the Archaeological Excavation and Research in Bikrampur region, declared the discovery of this 1000-year-old Buddhist Vihara. Over 100 precious idols and sculptures have been found till March, 2013.

This is one of the thirty viharas built by Emperor Dharmapala during his regime c. 820 as the second emperor of the Pala Empire. It is connected to Atiśa, an important figure in Tibetan Buddhism During the time of Atiśa, this region was the center of Buddhist education and some 8,000 students and professors came to study at Bikrampur from as far as China, Tibet, Nepal and Thailand.

Central temple

Five rooms of the monks sized 3.5 by 3.5 metres (11 ft × 11 ft) have been excavated so far. The exact size of the monastery however could not be assumed yet.

Famous Tourist Attractions in Munshiganj District

Idrakpur Fort (1660) in Munshiganj town, Panditer vita (birth place of atish dipankar srijnan) at Bajrayogini, Baba Adam's Mosque, Dighi of Raja Haris chandra, home stead of Raja Ballal Sen, home stead of Raja Sreenath at Rampal, Rampal Dighi, Kodal Dhoar Dighi, Shyamsiddhi Math at Sreenagar, Hasara Dargah, Sholaghar Math, Bhagyakul Rajbari, residence of Jagadis Chandra Basu at Radhikhal, Jora Math at Sonarang, Kalibari at Tongibari, Taltala Pancha-shikhara Mahadeva Temple, Talukdarbari Mosque at Kusumpur, Tajpur Mosque, Patharghata Mosque, Kazishal Mosque, Palghata Bridge, Panch Pir Dargah, marble statue of Ashutosh Ganguly inside the library room of Haraganga College.

Shamshiddhir Math, Panditer Vita, Home of Raja Bollal Sen, Birth Place of Atish Dipankar, Bhagyakul Rajbari,Residance of J C. Bosh, Pach Pirar Dargah, Rampal Lake, Hashara Dargha, Sholighor Math, Mohadev Mondir, Bhagyakul Rajbari, Padma Resort  etc. 

Postal Zip Codes for Munshiganj District

Thana/Upazila within Munshiganj District are: Gajaria, Lohajong, Munshiganj Sadar, Sirajdikhan, Srinagar. The following table contains post codes of various sub post office in Munshiganj district.

History And Famous Person Of Munshiganj District

Bikrampur (Munshiganj) was the political and cultural centre of ancient Bengal. It was officially known as Bikrampur until 1986 and was part of Dhaka District. The remains of the city of Bikrampur, the capital of the ancient kingdoms of southeastern Bengal, are lost and its location can only be guessed on the basis of available data. The area comprising the districts of Munshiganj stretching on the west of the Meghna and Dhaleshwari had been included in the kingdom of vikramapura in the ancient period. During the Sena rule Vikramapura in East Bengal had been the second capital of the Senas in addition to their capital at Nadia. After the fall of Nadia in the hands of bakhtiyar khalji (1204) the Sena King lakshmanasena fled to Vikramapura and began to rule East Bengal. After the death of Lakshmanasena (1206) his descendants Visvarupasena and Kesavasena ruled in Vikramapura till at least 1223 AD. Some historians postulate that the sons of Lakshamanasena ruled in Vikramapura up to 1243-45 AD. Raja Dasarathadeva Danujmadhava (Danuj Rai), the Deva king of Chandradvipa, ousted the Senas from Vikramapura in the third quarter of the thirteenth century and ruled the south-eastern Bengal till the end of the thirteenth century.

Administration

The district consists of 6 upazilas:

Lohajang Upazila, Sreenagar Upazila, Munshiganj Sadar, Sirajdikhan Upazila, Tongibari Upazila, Gazaria Upazila

Notable people

Revolutionary Nationalists

• M. Hamidullah Khan, Bangladesh Forces, Sector Commander, Sector 11, Bangladesh War of Independence 1971
• Jagadish Chandra Bose, Great Bengali physicist
• Badal Gupta, revolutionary against British India
• Benoy Basu, revolutionary against British India
• Dinesh Gupta, revolutionary against British India

Social & Scientific

• Chashi Nazrul Islam - artist
• Humayun Azad, linguistic scientist, poet and novelist 
• Durga Mohan Das, Brahmo reformer
• Dwarkanath Ganguly, Brahmo reformer

Art, Culture & Sports

• Brojen Das, the first Bangladeshi and Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it four times
• Emdadul Huq Milon, writer and media personality
• Buddhadeb Bosu‚ writer, poet, playwright, essayist

Public Affairs

• A. N. Hamidullah, First Governor, Bangladesh Bank 
• Abu Sayeed Hafizullah, first Bengali Accountant General of East Pakistan 
• Fakhruddin Ahmed, former chief adviser, Non-Party Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, 2007–2008.
• Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh
• A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, former shortest term appointed President of Bangladesh
• Sadeque Hossain Khoka‚ former Mayor of Dhaka
• M. A. Naser, pioneer in Engineering Education, former Vice Chancellor or BUET, Ekushey Padak recipient

The Part Of Picture In Munshiganj District