Idrakpur Fort

Idrakpur fort is one of the most important and technically sound piece of craftsmanship archeological site of Bangladesh. Built by Mir Jumla by 1660 a.d., this place had a huge historical impact. This fort was build to keep pirates from attacking.
The place is majestic as much as beautiful to view. The build style is very fine. A mixture of art and strategy.

Very nice place to visit. Whenever you will visit this place it will remind you the old times forts. This place is also a cool place. This fort was used to provide safety to old Dhaka against mog pirates during 16 century. This place has good archeological values.

It's a historical fort, built in 1660 by Mughal. It was built to protect the area from Pirates.

A part of history you may like to visit. It was built about at 1660 AD by Sebedar Mir Jumla. Read more from my photos. If you go to Munshigonj don't forget to visit there.

Idrakpur Fort was built by the Mir Jumla, viceroy of Bangla in 1660 AD to protect Bangla and the river route from pirates.

The place is now famous historical place under Bangladesh archeological society. Everyday many visitors visit that calm and quiet place and remember those days, when the soldiers are firing cannons to the pirates to protect the city!

Idrakpur, now Munshiganj was a strategically very significant point as it was the junction of a number of rivers including Meghna River, Shitalakshya River, Ichhamati River and Dhaleshwari River.[3] The fort was built on the bank of the junction of Ichhamati River and Meghna River.

The Portuguese and Magh pirates used this point to move forward to Dhaka through Shitalakshya River. On their way to Dhaka they used to loot other important cities like Sonargaon and Bikrampur.[4]

Mir Jumla II was determined to protect Dhaka and eager to develop the wealthy area Bikrampur. So, he came up with a triangular defence strategy to protect the cities from the Portuguese pirates.[2]

Idrakpur Fort was the centre of his strategy. The erection of the fort was intended to check the advance of the Magh and Portuguese pirates proceeding towards the Mughal capital city of Dhaka. The fort was also used as the naval base of the naval fleet of 200 frigates under Mughal admiral Abul Hossain.[2]

According to the strategy, whenever the pirates made an attempt to advance to Dhaka the Mughal soldiers would be ordered to start firing mortars both from the cannons of their 200 battleships and from the Idrakpur Fort leaving the pirates with no options but to retreat or die on the rivers.

However, if any of the pirate ships survived the initial attack and tried to advance to Dhaka the Sonakanda Fort and the Hajiganj Fort, situated on the eastern and western bank of Shitalakshya River respectively, would start throwing round-shots to those ships and vessels and sink all the pirate ships on the river.[1]

It was probably built in about 1660 A.D.

This fort is surrounded by canals and was once linked with Lalbag Fort and Sonargaon through secret tunnels. Later the tunnels were completely sealed. Also, To me, this place was more beautiful than Lalbag Fort but sadly I saw no maintenance. Even the gate of this place was carelessly left open.

Idrakpur Fort
It is a historical landmark situated in Munshiganj
district. It was constructed in approximately 1660 AD by
Mir Jumla, Subahdar of Bengal under the Mughal
Empire, to establish the control of the Mughal Empire in
Munsiganj and to defend Dhaka and Narayanganj from
the pirates. The fort was a part of the triangular defence
strategy for the vulnerable river route, from where the
pirates used to attack Dhaka.

A great historical place & archeological sight in Munshigonj.

Idrakpur fort is a historical mughal water fort of Bangladesh...The fort structure and design is awesome...The environment of the fort is also calm and relaxing...Had a good time with family...

Idrakpur ford is established approximately on the year 1660. By Mughal Subedar Mir Jumla. It's built to protect Dhaka from pirates attack. For example, Portuguese pirate,Mug Pirate etc.
It is a nice place to visit. There is no ticket need to visit. We found there is an another Bridge established in same period of time, that's name is Polgata Bridge in Panam village Mirkadim.
We heard there was an another bridge on ichamoti river 2. That bridge is totally ruined. That was in near to kunder Bazar Bridge.

This fort is one of the traditional monuments of Munshiganj The tradition of Munshiganj is closely connected with this fort 🥰❤

It is historical place in bangladesh. But seems like this place is neglected. Proper care should be taken and make this place visible to everyone.

Nice place to visit and photoshoot.

One of the three famous water forts built to save Dhaka from pirets duriy Mughal era. Though the fort was right beside the river once, it's far away now due to natural change of course and sediment deposition. Surrounding area also got higher in the course of time.

This place is almost 400years old.
Will remind you about the gloriaous history of Bangladesh.
But this fort is not well maintained and
there is nothing more than some architecture you can see.

It was a great experience to visit this historical place.

Idrakpur Fort is a river fort situated in Munshiganj, Bangladesh. The fort was built approximately in 1660 A.D. According to a number of historians, the river fort was built by Mir Jumla II, a Subahdar of Bengal under the Mughal Empire, to establish the control of Mughal Empire in Munsiganj, and to defend Dhaka and Narayanganj from the pirates.
The fort was a part of the triangular defence strategy for the vulnerable river route, from where the pirates used to attack Dhaka. The strategy was developed by Mir Jumla II with the help of the other two forts in Narayanganj- the Hajiganj Fort and the Sonakanda Fort.
Idrakpur river-fort is different from the other Mughal forts and has a number of unique features.

The fort is apparently divided into two parts- the eastern part and the western part. The quadrangular eastern part and the polygonal western part combined into the complete fort.

The brick built fort comprises a wider open area surrounded by wall with bastions at the angles. The thick wall runs from north to south measuring 86.87-meter in length and 59.60-meter in width. The wall has machicolations from where the enemies on the river was targeted and the mortars were fired. There are a number of towers from where the movement of the enemies were observed.

Awesome place which resemble the war strategy of our anchester kings. You are advised to visit.

Idrakpur fort is a river fort situated at Munshiganj, Dhaka. It was built under the mughal empire.

It's a historical place at munshiganj tawn. Good place visit. If you love traveling you must have to visit it.