Haripur Boro Bari also known as Haripur Jomidar Bari is a mammoth mansion that is located at the Haripur village of Nasirnogor Upazila of Brahmanbaria district. This is exactly adjacent to the bank of the river Titash from outside its hard to get any essence of its antiquity and beauty.
This is a capacious mansion having plenty of rooms at the both floor. It is found that the owner was Jomidar Krishna Prasad Ray Choudhury who built that around 1343 of Bengali Calendar. At the front side it has a Ghat for taking bath (also may be for taking part in a family gossip during after noon).
Right now the situation of the building is not good. This is now occupied by lot of poor families. Due to lack of care most of the walls are decaying. It is a two stored building and few portion of the second floor is risky. But still people are living at the ground floor.
The mammoth size, stylish architecture, etc simply implies that how sumptuous the owner was. Though most of the parts are diminished but still there is a portion of a Pasha Ghor exists at the second floor.
Probably the owner used to play Pasha with his mates. May be it was a dance floor where the rich Baijee used to perform every night. Those things are history now. May be we'll not know anything about this anymore.
Since this is exactly beside the river Titash lot of people used to visit here with a boat as a part of their picnic. As per the local, this type of picnic party uses to visit frequently during the weekends and still people from our Dhaka know very little about this place. Just about few hundred meters apart from the building you'll find a cremation place which was built by the same owner.
Though it is located at the Haripur village of Nasirnagar, it will be nearest for you from Madhabpur of Hobiganj. You can take the bus of Hobiganj and get down from the bus at Madhabpur bazar. Besides this, Dhaka and Bahamanbaria is also linked by road. You can take a bus from Komlapur bus stand of Dhaka to reach Brahmanbaria district. Some bus services are Shohag Paribahan,Tisha Paribahan and Titash Paribahan.
If you want to stay there, there are lots of hotel services which you may consider like Nasirnagar Dak Bungalow, Zilla Parishad Dak Bungalow, Hotel Ujanvati and Resort and Hotel Chandrima.
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