Bahadur Shah Park

At the end of the 18th century, there was a billiard club for the Armenians of Dhaka. Which the locals named Antaghar. The billiard ball was called anta by the locals. From there comes the word 'antaghar'. Adjacent to the club house was a ground known as Antaghar Maidan. After Queen Victoria assumed the rule of India in 1858, the Commissioner of Dhaka Division read out a proclamation in this regard. Since then this place was named 'Victoria Park'. Until 1957, the park was known as Victoria Park. After the sepoy mutiny of 1857, the British rulers hanged many revolutionary sepoys in a farcical trial. Then, to scare the people, the bodies of the sepoys were brought and hung on the branches of various trees in this field. In 1957 (alternately 1961) on the occasion of the centenary of the Sepoy Mutiny, a memorial was built here and the park was renamed Bahadur Shah Park. The Sepoy Mutiny took place to end the British rule and restore the rule of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II. So it was renamed as 'Bahadur Shah Park' after him.