Ruins of Ruplal House | Old Dhaka | Bangladesh

A 19th century old palace, the incomparablely beautiful building in old part of Dhaka near buriganga river bank and near buckland bund, has large cylindrical columns in line with the grand architectural styles of ancient Greek buildings.
An Armenian businessman Stephen Aratoon built a European-style mansion on the bank of the Buriganga River at Farashganj in 1825. It was later bought by two wealthy merchant brothers from Dhaka-Ruplal Das and Raghunath Das-in 1840. The Ruplal House was the only competitor to the Ahsan Manzil during the British colonial era.
Divided into two unequal blocks in slightly different styles, it is a two-storey edifice with 50 rooms of various sizes and the beautiful Buriganga in the front.
Ruplal Das was a Zamindar and merchant. His family left for Kolkata after the partition of India in 1947. In 1962, through a formal deed, Mohammed Siddique Jamal purchased Ruplal House and some other houses in Dhaka in exchange for their house in the posh locality of Aukland Square in Kolkata. However, most of the family members have now migrated to different countries.
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