Jakob Tower ( bn, জ্যাকব টাওয়ার) is a tourist watchtower located in the

Char Fasson Char Fasson ( bn, চর ফ্যাশন) is a town and municipality in Bhola District in the Barisal division, division of Barisal, Bangladesh. It is the administrative headquarter and urban centre of Char Fasson Upazila. References See also ...

town of

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Island in southern Bangladesh. Natural beauty can be enjoyed from this tower up to an area of . It is the tallest watchtower in Bangladesh as well as in the subcontinent. Built in the style of the

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, the 16-story watch tower can accommodate 50 visitors on each floor and 500 visitors throughout the tower.

Location

The Watch Tower is located in front of the Khasmahal Mosque on

College Road, an Upazila town on the shores of the Bay of Bengal, from

district town.

Naming

It was not called Jakob Tower at the beginning of construction. Former Commerce Minister

Tofail Ahmed Tofail Ahmed (22 February 1919 – 28 March 2002) was a well-known Bangladeshi researcher of Folk Art. He was also a collector of Folk artifacts and has authored several books on Bangladeshi Folk arts and Crafts. He was awarded the ''Shilu Abed K ...

visited the tower under construction on May 16, 2017, and was impressed by the construction style and aesthetic beauty of the tower and named it 'Jakob Tower'. The tower is named after Bhola-4 MP

Abdullah Al Islam Jakob Abdullah Al Islam Jakob is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the present chairman of the Standing Committee on Ministry of Youth & Sports and former deputy Minister of Environment and Forest. He is also a member of parliament for Bhol ...

Construction and structure

Construction of the tower began in February 2013 at a cost about 20 crore BDT. It is high. Char Fasson Municipality has implemented a tower construction project on an acre of land. The tower was designed by architect Kamruzzaman Liton. Built entirely on a cast-piling foundation below the ground, the tower can withstand a magnitude 6 earthquake. From the ground up to the dome-shaped watchpoint at the top of the tower, there is 5 mm diameter transparent glass on the surrounding aluminium.

Tourism

An area of about can be seen from the top of Jakob Tower. Binoculars are available to see distant places. From here you can see the protected forests of

Char Kukri Mukri Kukri Mukri is an island (char) of Char Kukri Mukri union, Bhola District, in southern Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the ...

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, Char Piyal of Swapnadwip Monpura, Hatiya's Nijhum Island and the

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References

{{reflist Tourist attractions in Barishal Division Char Fasson Upazila