Fatullah ( bn, ফতুল্লা) (also known as Fatulla) is a town and a
Union in
Narayanganj Sadar Upazila in
Narayanganj District
Narayanganj District ( bn, নারায়ণগঞ্জ, Narayoṇgonj) is a district in central Bangladesh which is a part of the Dhaka Division. It is home to the ancient city of Sonargaon and is one of the oldest industrial districts in th ...
. It is located on the southern outskirts of
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
, in central
Bangladesh
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.
It is the location of the
Fatulla Osmani Stadium, an international
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...
stadium
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Cricinfo - Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium
/ref> that has hosted its first One Day International
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and Test match in 2006. In ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, it has hosted the warm up matches of England against Canada and Pakistan.
Fatulla is also one of the major industrial areas of Bangladesh. The second largest Eid-ul-Azha cattle market of Bangladesh, ''Fatulla DIT gorur haat'', is situated in Fatulla. The royalties of Fatulla is the '' Chowdhury Family''; a large area of Fatulla, Chowdhury Bari is named after the ''Chowdhury family''. Before the system was abolished ''Kader Baksh Chowdhury'' was the last official Zamindar
A zamindar (Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as ...
of Fatulla. History and the surrounding areas of the Fatulla has left marks of their lost glory. The Majar of Shah Fatulla is situated here which is also under the control of Chowdhury Bari and very recently they are reconstructing their family mosque by notable persons of the Chowdhury family which is near their family graveyard. Fatulla is situated on bank of river called Buriganga. There are many Garments and Textile
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factories in Fatulla.
References
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Narayanganj Sadar Upazila
Populated places in Dhaka Division