Mausoleum of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

It is located in Tungipara of Gopalganj district, the birthplace of Mujib, and was designed by architects Ehsan Khan, Ishtiaque Jahir and Iqbal Habib.

[1] After the liberation of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became the 2nd prime minister of the country after being released from Mianwali Jail in Pakistan and returning to his motherland.

The Director General of Forces Intelligence assigned a major to hand over his body to his village relatives and supervise the burial.

Major Haider Ali and 14 army personnel brought Mujib's dead body to Tungipara by helicopter.

After listening to imam's answer, Major Ali asked to complete the funeral at low cost and quickly.

[1] In 1994, architect Ehsan Khan, Ishtiaq Zahir and Iqbal Habib were commissioned to convert Bangabandhu's residence in Dhaka into a museum.

The tomb built of red ceramic and black and white marble, contains the graves of three people including Mujib and his parents.

There is also an exhibition center featuring photographs of the Bangladesh War of Independence, as well as of Mujib from various periods and local-foreign historical newspapers.

There are also a research center, open stage, public plaza, an administrative building, cafeteria, Bakultala Square, and a souvenir shop.

[9] In 1984, Syed Fakhruddin Mahmud wrote a poem about the mausoleum titled Ekti Omor Somadhi (lit.

Entrance gate of the mausoleum complex
The old residence of the Sheikh family ; the building was damaged during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971