Place · unfinished Mughal fort · Bangladesh
Lalbagh Fort, Dhaka
Also known as Lalbagh Fort, Lālbāgh Fort
The unfinished Mughal fort begun in 1678 at Dhaka by Prince Muhammad Azam, Aurangzeb's third son and the Bengal subahdar, abandoned when he was recalled to Delhi and never completed. The fort complex holds the tomb of Pari Bibi (Bibi Pari) — Azam's niece and the daughter of his successor Shaista Khan — whose 1684 death at Dhaka halted construction and gave the fort its reputation as unlucky. The surviving structures are the gateway, the 1678 mosque, the hammam, the central platform and the tomb.
- Date
- 1678–None
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Patron dynasty
- Mughal
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.719, 90.388
Connections (1)
- Site withinDhaka
Lalbagh Fort — the unfinished Mughal fort of 1678 with Pari Bibi's tomb — sits in the Lalbagh area of old Dhaka along the Buriganga's north bank, within walking distance of the pre-Mughal Dhakeshwari temple and the colonial-era Ahsan Manzil to the east. The fort was the defining Mughal monument of Dhaka's half-century as the Bengal subahdar's capital.