BALIATI ZAMIDAR BARI

The great Baliati Zomidar Bari is located in the village Baliati in Upozila Saturia  under district Manikganj. This archaeological building is about 200 years old. A river named Gazikhali, which is no more now, flowed at the northern side of the palace.Gobinda Ram Shaha was the settler of the Zamindari at Baliati. He was a salt merchant. He inherited the business from his parent, then he extended that business further and established the zamindari. The zamindari extended to Narayanganj District.

There are seven palaces. The palace area occupies around 5.88 acres of land, enclosed within a moat and a perimeter wall. There are about 200 rooms inside the premises. At the back of the Palace is a pond (dighi) having four ghats.

This Jamidar family helped in education sector greatly. Dhaka Jogonnath University as well as the Jogonnath Hall of Dhaka University was established by them. All the buildings from the premise were not built at the same time. Those buildings were built at different times by different persons from the ruler's family. Most of the buildings are having a touch of Greek-Roman style, for example the pillars, roof, etc.

At the end of the 18th century, Zamindar Harendra Kumar Ray Chowdhury officially sold some parts of the Zamindari of Narayanganj to Sreemoti Alladi BiBi who was the owner of Talluk and her husband Zamindar Rohim Boksh Haji. Since 1987, the palaces have been administered by the Bangladesh archeological department. This remarkable complex was acquired by the Bangladesh archeological department with anew given name 'Baliati Palace' as a protected cultural property.