Allahu Chattar ( bn, আল্লাহু চত্বর, Allahu Chottor, Allahu Square), also known as Allah Chattar ( bn, আল্লাহ চত্বর, Allah Chottor), is a tower in
Muradnagar
Muradnagar is a city and a municipal board in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It lies about from Ghaziabad, the district headquarters, and from Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a ...
,
Comilla. It replaced the Doel Square.
Location and history
Under the initiative of local politician
Yussuf Abdullah Harun
Yussuf Abdullah Harun ( bn, ইউসুফ আবদুল্লাহ হারুন) is an Awami League politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Comilla-3.
Early life
Harun was born on 15 November 1947 to a Bengali Muslim fami ...
, plans to build a tower were announced. The politician mentioned that he designed the tower himself. It was officially opened by Harun on 7 September 2019 at 5pm. The square is located east of the Muradnagar bus stand on the four-road junction. It is bounded on the north-west by
Homna Upazila, on the north-east by Ramchandrapur via
Bancharampur Road, on the south by Muradnagar-Dhaka Road and on the east by Companyganj via Nabinagar Road.
Structure and details
The circular tower contains the
99 names of Allah
Names of God in Islam ( ar, أَسْمَاءُ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ , "''Allah's Beautiful Names''") are names attributed to God in Islam by Muslims. While some names are only in the Quran, and others are only in the hadith, th ...
written in
Arabic
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text. The name
Allah
Allah (; ar, الله, translit=Allāh, ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from '' al- ilāh'', which means "the god", an ...
is inscribed at the top. It is 30 feet high and 14 feet in diameter from the ground. The plaque is rich in six
Arabic calligraphy terracotta.
See also
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Madani Square
Madani Square, ( bn, মাদানী চত্বর, , translit=Madani Chottor, , lit=Madani Square), also known as Madani Chattar or Madani Point, is a monument in Nayasarak Road in Sylhet built to commemorate Hussain Ahmed Madani's contri ...
, a similar monument built earlier in
Sylhet
Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট) is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of the Sylhet Division. Located on the north bank of the Surma River at the eastern tip of Bengal, Sylhet has a subtropical climate an ...
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Shapla Square
Shapla Square ( bn, শাপলা চত্বর, Shapla Chottor) is a huge sculpture at the heart of Motijheel near the center of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It depicts a Shapla (water lily, the species ''Nymphaea nouchali
''Nymph ...
References
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Monuments and memorials in Bangladesh
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Architecture in Bangladesh
Towers in Bangladesh
Towers completed in the 2010s