Khizirpur fort Heritage City Narayanganj

Khizirpur fort now know as a Hajiganj Fort.This Fort located at Hajiganj locality of Narayanganj.This IS very Important water fort .It was build just at point where the old Buriganga river discharged in Shitolokhya river.It may built soon after by Islam Khan established Mughal Capital at Dhaka and was intended to countercept the raids of the Magh and Portuguese pirates.

The fort, quadrangular in size, consists of a pentagonal curtain wall machicolated for muskets with rounded corner bastions. On the inner side of the curtain wall there is 1.22m high rampart walkway from the base of the curtain wall which is itself pierced by several musketry holes. Each of the corner bastions has staircase inside up to the rampart level and its merlons have wider holes in between meant for gun firing. In a corner of the fort quadrangle there is a free tall square column of brickwork which seems to be a guard tower. The existence of this column links the fort with other water forts of the time. The existence of the elevated platform for the setting of cannons is an important feature of the fort.

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