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❦Hamidur Rahman
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Designer of the Central Shaheed Minar
He designed the later central Shaheed Minar complex that gave the memory of the language martyrs a lasting architectural form.
Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive
Biography
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Context
In the context of Memorialization of the language movement in the later 1950s and 1960s., Hamidur Rahman is recognized as Designer of the Central Shaheed Minar. He designed the later central Shaheed Minar complex that gave the memory of the language martyrs a lasting architectural form.
Contribution
He designed the later central Shaheed Minar complex that gave the memory of the language martyrs a lasting architectural form.
Impact
His work helped transform martyrdom into a permanent public space of mourning and political identity.