Neel Kuthi was built by the English
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
, sometime at the beginning of the indigo trade and management. It is a two-storied structure located north of Panam in
Sonargaon
Sonargaon ( bn, সোনারগাঁও; pronounced as ''Show-naar-gaa''; lit. ''Golden Hamlet'') is a historic city in central Bangladesh. It corresponds to the Sonargaon Upazila of Narayanganj District in Dhaka Division.
Sonargaon is one ...
,
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
across the
Mughal Bridge on Dulalpur road. The structure is located at distance from the nearby population.
Feature
The structure has a combination of
Mughal
Mughal or Moghul may refer to:
Related to the Mughal Empire
* Mughal Empire of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries
* Mughal dynasty
* Mughal emperors
* Mughal people, a social group of Central and South Asia
* Mughal architecture
* Mug ...
and local decorative features. The building has a courtyard in the front, which was used for packaging and processing
Indigo powder and the surrounding rooms were used for storage. The building in the front was used as an office, while the back building was composed of blank wall surfaces. The main entrance is located on the road and another entrance is in the middle of the North wall. Next to the side entry lie the stairs to the upper floor. The upper floor includes a mezzanine for storage purposes.
[ABM Husain ,Asiatic Society of Bangladesh "Architecture". ISBN (invalid) 984-300-000965. . (pg:357-358)]
References
Commercial buildings in Bangladesh
Mughal architecture
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