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Nazirabazar, Dhaka — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Nazirabazar is a neighbourhood in the old part of Dhaka, in Bangladesh, known for its shoe factories and its dense run of restaurants and eateries.
About Nazirabazar
Where to stay in Nazirabazar
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Nazirabazar keeps almost no hotels of its own. Nazirabazar holds almost no rooms of its own. Most visitors sleep elsewhere in Dhaka and walk into this quarter of the old city for its shoe workshops and its long, crowded parade of restaurants and eateries that draw eaters from across the capital.
The Armenian Church stands within the same stretch of Old Dhaka.
About Nazirabazar
What are the main landmarks in Nazirabazar?
Nazirabazar is a working neighbourhood, not a monument district. Its fame is culinary. The lanes fill with restaurants and eateries and with small shoe factories, and the Armenian Church sits nearby within Old Dhaka.
Grander sights lie a short way off. The Shaheed Minar, the Bangladesh National Museum, and Suhrawardy Udyan rise elsewhere in Dhaka, beyond the old quarter.
What is the history of Nazirabazar?
Nazirabazar grew up inside Old Dhaka. Its shoe factories and its food trade gave the neighbourhood its character, binding it to the older commercial fabric of Dhaka long before the museum quarter around the Shaheed Minar and the Bangladesh National Museum took its modern shape. Trade shaped these lanes.
Craft kept them busy.
Where is Nazirabazar?
Nazirabazar lies in the old part of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, one dense neighbourhood among the many that make up the old city.
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Updated July 2026