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Bangladesh has a small community of the Baháʼí Faith. Baháʼís have spiritual centres in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barisal, Rangpur, Mymensingh, Jessore, Rangamati and other places. Bangladesh has a very small number of Sarnaist followers, mostly Mundas or Santalis. Bangladesh also has a tiny Brahmo Samaj community.
At the time, Bengal was divided into the three city states of Sonargaon, Satgaon and Lakhnauti. In 1352, the three city states were united by Ilyas Shah into a single, unitary, independent Bengal Sultanate. The creation of the Bengal Sultanate sparked several Bengal-Delhi Wars, which resulted in Delhi recognizing Bengal's independence.
Hinduism is the second-largest religion in 61 out of 64 districts of Bangladesh, but there is no Hindu majority district in Bangladesh. In October 2022, the Government of Bangladesh proclaimed that it is dedicated to ensuring the safety and security of the Hindu minority community, after attacks on Hindu temples during religious pujas , Hindu ...
The newspaper received its first publication permission on 25 January 1991 from the Government of Bangladesh. [1] Santosh Sharma is the publisher of the daily newspaper on behalf of Kalbela Media Limited. The headquarter of the newspaper is located in the Newmarket area of Dhaka. Abed Khan has served as the editor of the newspaper since June 2022.
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The city is spread over an area of 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi), [1] on the banks of the moribund branch of the Bhairab River along a 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) stretch (in an east–west direction and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) width in north–south direction [6]), which was part of the Sundarbans mangrove forests. Today all monuments are set ...
The Constitution of Bangladesh includes secularism as one of the four fundamental principles, [1] despite having Islam as the state religion by 2A. [2] Islam is referred to twice in the introduction and Part I of the constitution and the document begins with the Islamic phrase Basmala (بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ) which in English is translated as ...
Buddhism is the third-largest religious affiliation and formed about 0.61% of the population of Bangladesh. [1] [2] It is said that Buddha once in his life came to this region of East Bengal to spread his teachings and he was successful in converting the local people to Buddhism, specially in the Chittagong division and later on Pala empire propagate and patronized Buddhist religion throughout ...