ময়েজ মঞ্জিল বাংলাদেশের ফরিদপুরে অবস্থিত ব্রিটিশ শাসনামলের জমিদারবাড়ি। জমিদার খান সাহেব ময়েজউদ্দিন বিশ্বাস এটি প্রতিষ্ঠা করেন।
Indeed if a house could speak, it would not only tell the story of the family that lived in it, but also narrate fragments of history that it may have witnessed. There could be events which have escaped the limelight of mainstream records, which such old houses would love to share with the world. Indeed some buildings and residences have almost been like a living but silent spectator to the great dramatic evolution of our nation.
One such house, that holds a treasure trove of stories, history and anecdotes, is the house that “came to life” in 1885, standing on about 10 acres of lovely lawns, gardens and tree groves, almost adjacent to the Circuit House of Faridpur. Originally the home grounds were comprised of over 30 acres, but in the early 1900s, the British had some roads fork through the property, carving off some parts on all sides.
The main residence is comprised of about 30,000 square feet of floor space across five buildings with almost 40 rooms (excluding two fabulously decorative and floral relief work embellished mausoleums and a six minaret mosque). The home is popularly referred to as the White House of Faridpur (not just for its bedazzling whiteness, but as it was the seat of governance of Faridpur).
It is listed by Wikipedia among the notable palaces of Bangladesh, and by some publications as a heritage location of the country. This is the house which bears the name of Moyez Manzil, and which was made by the much fabled Zamindar of Faridpur, Chowdhury Moyezuddin Bishwash, who was not only one of the pioneers of kindling the anti-colonial sentiments among the elite of Bengal, but was also one of the founding patrons of All India Congress and of the first political party of what is today Bangladesh, called the People’s Association of Faridpur. He had also been a staunch pillar of protest during the Anti-Indigo movement of 1859 and who had even rallied his forces to aid the valiant initiators of the Sepoy Revolution of 1857.
26 ноя 2021
