National Memorial

On December 16, 1972, the then President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman laid the foundation stone of this memorial at Nabinagar , 25 kilometers from Dhaka city, on the side of the Dhaka-Aricha highway . In 1978, President Ziaur Rahman initiated the construction of the memorial and the design was invited. Among the 57 designs received in June 1978, the design by Syed Mainul Hossain was accepted. Construction of the main memorial began in 1979 AD and was completed shortly before Victory Day in 1982 AD. According to the project adopted in 2002 AD, there are plans to install a bonfire, elaborate murals and a library . ^[3]Foreign heads of state visiting Bangladesh plant memorial trees here with their own hands. Apart from the minaret of the memorial, the architectural design of all other construction works including the master plan and landscape plan of the project was prepared by the Directorate of Architecture of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Construction started in July 1972 and was completed in 1988. The Directorate of Public Works under the Ministry of Housing and Public Works of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh completed the entire construction work. Currently, the construction of the monument is completed in three phases at a total cost of Tk 13.00 crore.