Sonargaon brings together Panam Nagar, craftsmanship and mercantile memory
A day in Sonargaon brings together three periods of Bengal: the historic capital, Panam Nagar’s mercantile architecture and the region’s folk arts.
Read guide →Panam Nagar
Panam Nagar is a roughly 600-metre historic street lined with residences and commercial buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is best explored slowly from the outside.
The place
What makes it special
- Dozens of historic buildings along a narrow street.
- Balconies, porticoes, openings and ornament that reveal varied architectural influences.
- A mercantile streetscape dating from well after Sonargaon’s medieval period.
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- www.tourismbangladesh.com.bd
- railwaydhaka.gov.bd
- oicpm.mofa.gov.bd
- beautifulbangladesh.gov.bd
- archaeology.gov.bd
- railway.gov.bd
- railway.gov.bd
- bhz.touristpolice.gov.bd
- Bangladesh · Wikidata
- Bangladesh · World Countries — mledoze
- Bangladesh · World Bank Open Data
- Bangladesh · DBpedia
- Sonargaon · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Sonargaon Upazila · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Sonargaon, Sonargaon Upazila, Narayanganj District, Dhaka Division, 1440, Bangladesh · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Panam Nagar, Sonargoan Road, Mograpara, Krishna Para, Sonargaon, Sonargaon Upazila, Narayanganj District, Dhaka Division, 1440, Bangladesh · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Goaldi Mosque, Sonargoan Road, Mograpara, Krishna Para, Sonargaon, Sonargaon Upazila, Narayanganj District, Dhaka Division, 1440, Bangladesh · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
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Profile updated: 07/10/2026