Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Cha Konnya Memorial, Sreemangal, Sylhet

Cha Konnya Memorial, Sreemangal, Sylhet



Famous as the capital of tea Sreemangal is a famous tourist city of Bangladesh. At present, out of 163 tea gardens in the country, there are 40 tea gardens in Sreemangal that is why Sreemangal is called the capital of tea. There are several famous tourist attractions in this city of two leaves a bud. Cha Konnya Memorial; Tea Garden; Tea Research Institute; Baikka Beel; Tea Museum; Seven Colors Tea in Sylhet; Shitesh Babu's Zoo; Nirmai Shivbari; Nirala Khasiya Punji; Bharaura Lake; Badhyabhumi 71; Lal Pahar; Deanston Cemetry etc.
This Cha Konnya Memorial is located at the entrance of the tea capital Sreemangal at the foot of Satgaon Tea Garden at the end of Lachna in Satgaon Union of Sreemangal Upazila. This Cha Konnya Memorial will be seen on the way from Dhaka to Sreemangal by road. The sculpture was designed by Sanjit Roy, a senior art teacher at Chittagong Shilpakala Academy. The sculpture is made in the shape of a female tea girl and a tea tree. Its height is 24 feet and the basement below is 8 feet long and 8 feet wide. It took 1 month and 20 days to build. The work of making this Cha Konnya Memorial started in December 2009 and it was inaugurated in 2010. And in 2016 it was reformed. In homage to the tireless work of the tea workers, a beautifully decorated sculpture of a tea girl has been erected at the entrance of Sreemangal. The good-evil, joy-pain of all the tea workers of the country including Sreemangal seems to be in harmony in this sculpture. Thousands of domestic and foreign tourists flock here every day to see the beauty of this eye-catching sculpture. In front of this tea girl sculpture is a part of Satgaon tea garden. Friends, let's visit this Satgaon tea garden and the real tea girls of this tea garden this Cha Konnya Memorial has been made by imitating them.


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