Published: 12:01 AM, 30 June 2018
Horipur Boro Bari:Historic structure
Horipur Boro Bari, also known as Horipur Zamindar Bari is a mammoth mansion that is located at the Horipur village of Nasirnagar Upazila in Brahmanbaria district. These 175 years old historic building is also known as Rajbari (king's palace), Boro Bari, or Zamindar Bari.
This is exactly adjacent to the bank of the river Titash. From outside it's hard to get any essence of its antiquity and beauty. This is a capacious mansion having plenty of rooms at the both floor.
From the inscription from a Moth near the area it is found that the owner was Zamindar 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's 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.
Since this is exactly beside the river Titash, lot of people use 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 Dhaka know very little about this place. You can explore the river after visiting this old Zamindar Bari.
But you may not find any boat for hiring around there. Most of those are the private boats. May be you can request them to use for a while. Just about few hundred meters apart from the building you'll find a cremation place which was built by the same owner.
