The 400 year-old city. -The ancient Panam City.

The Panam City is one of the 100 Destroyed Historical Cities in the World. World Monument Fund published Panam Nagar in the list of 100 world-renowned historic installations in 2006. Panam was one of the most attractive among the three cities of the "Bara Nagar", "Khas Nagar", "Panam Nagar" - of Sonargaon. There are several hundred old buildings that are related to the history of "Baro Bhuiyan" in Bengal. The ancient city develops around 20 square kilometers of Sonargaon.

Panam Nagar is a part of Sonargaon, the capital of ancient Bengal. Here was the main commercial center of mousseline. All the ancient and brilliant architectural buildings are still can be seen in the city of Panam. The building, the inn, the mosque, the temple, the temples, the bathrooms, the wells, the dancer's cave, the treasures, the mausoleum, the courtroom, the gateway, the wide walls, the hospital beside of the narrow road are the Witness of the ancient prosperity of Panam Nagar.

In the 15th century, Isha Khan established the first capital of Bengal in Sonagaon. Previously, By the Meghna and the Shitalakshya river, the foreign cloths came from the west and the muslin was exported from the country. In the bank of Shitalakshya and Meghna, there was daily crowded by sailing boat. For the commercial activities of the East India Company and the permanent settlement resulted in the Panam City. Later, this garment trade was occupied by blue trade. The English were set up at the center of Nile's business center.

The 400-year-old monastery in the west of Panam Nagar still can be seen, there are some ancient buildings including East India Company's factory (Nilkuthi), Pudderbari, Kashinath's house. But they are standing on the verge of destruction today. The 300-meter-long historic GrandTank Road, which was constructed under Sher Shah, is yet to be established from Sonargaon to Sindh. Two storied, double-decker and three-stored 52 buildings beside of the five broad six-meter long roads can be still seen in Panam Nagar, most of which are on the verge of destruction. The 10 buildings are almost extinct. Most of the buildings have lost bricks, ceramics are being destroyed. It is easy to describe by seeing the standing infrastructure, how beautiful Panam was! The government took Panam Nagar under the Department of Archeology.

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