Zia Udyan
park in Bangladesh
Zia Udyan or Zia Uddan (Bengali: জিয়া উদ্যান), also known as Chandrima Uddan (Bengali: চন্দ্রিমা উদ্যান, lit. 'Moonlight Park') is a park situated across the National Parliament Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
History
The 73-acre (0.30 km2) park is notable for being the place where the former Bangladeshi President, Ziaur Rahman was buried. It is connected to the road with a bridge which runs over Crescent Lake, dug in the 1965–1966 fiscal year. In 2025, Ziaur Rahman's widow, former prime minister Khaleda Zia, was buried beside him at the park.
Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government in August 2024, Chandrima Udyan was renamed to its previous name Zia Udyan.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Zia Udyan” as park in Bangladesh. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as park in Bangladesh. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15737247. Authority coordinates are 23.767, 90.378. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1966, 2025 and 2024.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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Three-step research path
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- Expand the search: follow Zia Udyan primary sources, Zia Udyan archive and Udyan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
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- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Zia Udyan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.