For three hundred years stood a thousand-square-foot two-story building On the clay pot

Arjun Nahar:

In Chittagong city, a two thousand storey building of one thousand square feet stood on a clay pot for three hundred years.

In Patharghata Najumia Lane in Chittagong city, a two thousand storey building of one thousand square feet stood on a clay pot for three hundred years. The pot was lined with 22-inch brick suede. The walls of the building are also 22 inches full. The well in the middle of the house. There is still a stream of pure water in the well.

On Thursday (July 8) afternoon, CUET VC (former) and Chittagong WASA Chairman Prof. Jahangir Alam inspected the building and said that the earthenware method could be used to protect it from earthquakes and tidal surges.

However, it can be ascertained by testing and researching how a building weighing thousands of tons has contained earthen pots for three hundred years.

The Chittagong History and Culture Research Center will take initiative to preserve these special pots as antiquities, said Aliur Rahman, chairman of the organization, while inspecting the site. According to the Antiquities Act of 2015, if the immovable property is 100 years old and the immovable property is 65 years old, it will be considered as antiquities.

He further said that all sorts of steps will be taken to preserve these in the Agrabad Ethical Museum through Chittagong District Administration.

Mohammad Abul Mansur, the fourth generation of Shariat Ullah, said that the building was built with bricks, lime and surki by bringing the clay pot from Rangoon (Yangon) in Myanmar three hundred years ago.