Central Shaheed Minar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Built to preserve the memory of the martyrs of the language movement of 1952, Shahid Minar is located in Dhaka University campus. A symbol of language struggle, every year people pay tribute to Shaheed Minar with flowers on 21st February. In the first hour of the 21st (12:01 PM), the deep respect and love of the entire nation for the immortal language martyrs began with the tribute paid by the Honorable President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.Currently, 21st February is being celebrated worldwide as International Mother Language Day. After Bengali was recognized as the national language of Pakistan, the work on the central Shaheed Minar began in 1957. Its construction was completed in 1963 by the Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University. Under the supervision of the committee formed under the leadership of Mahmud Hossain.On February 21, 1956, a minister was supposed to lay the foundation stone of 'Shaheed Minar', but the crowd raised strong objections and the foundation stone of the memorial was laid with Basiran, the 6-year-old daughter of Awal, one of the martyred rickshaw pullers of the language movement. Hamidur Rahman, the famous painter of Bangladesh, is known as the architect of Shaheed Minar, a monument of great language movement.
According to his vision, the construction of Shaheed Minar in a modified form started in November, 1957 under the direct supervision of him and Navera Ahmed. This design included a wide area of ​​the facade of the Dhaka Medical College Hostel. On February 21, 1963, the new Shaheed Minar was inaugurated by Hasina Begum, mother of Abul Barakat, one of the martyrs of the language movement.The first Shaheed Minar in Dhaka was built very quickly and completely unplanned. The students of Dhaka Medical College started construction of the monument on the afternoon of 23 February 1952 and completed it during the night. Shaheed Minar news was sent to the paper that day. In the memory of Shaheed Vir - Daily Azad published the news of Shaheed Minar under this title. The minaret is built at the eastern end of shed number bar of the medical student hostel (barrack).Around the corner between the hostel and the road. The objective is to be easily visible from the road outside and visible from any shed and standing on the long internal road. The Shaheed Minar was 10 feet high and 6 feet wide. Construction of the minaret was supervised by GS Sharfuddin (known as Engineer Sharfuddin), designed by Badrul Alam.Saeed Haider was with him. They were assisted by two masons. Bricks, sand and cement stored for the expansion of the medical college were brought from Piaru Sardar's warehouse in Old Dhaka. After dawn the minaret is covered with a cloth. On the same day, on the morning of February 24, Shaheed Shafiur's father informally inaugurated the Shaheed Minar on February 22.Azad editor Abul Kalam Shamsuddin inaugurated Shaheed Minar on February 26 at 10 o'clock in the morning. On the inauguration day i.e. February 26, the police and army surrounded the medical student hostel and demolished the first Shaheed Minar. Later, a Shaheed Minar was also built in Dhaka College, which was also demolished on the orders of the government.
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