Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts

Monday, December 24, 2018

Bangladesh - Rangamati Hanging Bridge

The back of this postcard reads:
Karnaphuli Bridge

That is an error though, because this is a postcard of Rangamati Hanging Bridge in Rangamati, Bangladesh.

This postcard is from 2014.  

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Bangladesh - Postal Card 1972, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Bangladesh

The sender wrote on the back that this is a rare postal card.  It was sent in an envelope in 2016, but the card is from 1972 and the postal mark is from December 12, 2012 --- 12-12-12. The man on the printed stamp is Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975) was the founding leader of Bangladesh. He served twice as the country's President.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Bangladesh - Kantajee's Temple Dinajpur

Kantajee's Temple Dinajpur
2014

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Kantaji Temple at Kantanagar, is a late-medieval Hindu temple in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Built by Maharaja Pran Nath, its construction started in 1704 and ended in the reign of his son Raja Ramnath 1722. It boasts one of the greatest examples on Terracotta architecture in Bangladesh and once had nine spires, but all were destroyed in an earthquake that took place in 1897.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014