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rupsha-bridge

Khan Jahan Ali Bridge is a bridge over Rupsa River in Khulna, Bangladesh. The bridge is also known as Rupsha Bridge. The bridge is located 4.80 km far from Khulna Town. It is called the gateway of Khulna because this bridge connects the Southern districts of Bangladesh with Mongla, the second largest sea port of Bangladesh. The length of the bridge is 1.6 km and its width is 16.48 meters.

st-josephs-church-khulna

The St. Joseph’s Cathedral also called Khulna Cathedral is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in Babu Khan Road, in the city of Khulna, third-largest in the Asian country of Bangladesh. The temple dating from 1956 follows the Roman or Latin Rite and is the mother or main church of the diocese of Khulna which was created as a diocese of Jessore in 1952.

Rabindranath Memorial Museum is a recently restored building belonged to the in-laws of Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. It’s said that Tagore visited the house only on the day of his wedding and reportedly never returned here. Nonetheless, locals have carefully preserved the building, the interiors of which have now been converted into a pictorial museum.

mosque

The Sixty Dome Mosque,a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a mosque in Bangladesh, the largest in that country from the Sultanate period. It has been described as “the most impressive Muslim monuments in the whole of the Indian subcontinent. It is located in Bagerhat district in southern Bangladesh which is in Khulna Division. It is about 3 miles far from the main town of Bagerhat.