Currency: 20 Bangladesh Taka (2012)
Period: People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Type: Standard Banknote
Obverse: At the Left is the Portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib. He was a Bangladeshi politician and statesman.
He is called the “Father of the Nation” in Bangladesh. He is considered to be the driving force behind the independence of Bangladesh.
He is popularly dubbed with the title of “Bangabandhu” (“Friend of Bengal”) by the people of Bangladesh.
At the center is the National Martyrs’ Memorial (Jatiyo Sriti Soudho). It is the national monument of Bangladesh, set up in the memory of those who died in the Bangladesh War of Independence of 1971, which brought independence and separated Bangladesh from Pakistan.
The monument is located in Savar, about 35 km north-west of the capital, Dhaka.
Reverse: At the right center is the Sixty Dome Mosque (Shaṭ Gombuj Moshjid; more commonly known as Shait Gambuj Mosque or Saith Gunbad Masjid), is a mosque in Bangladesh. It is a part of the Mosque City of Bagerhat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It is the largest mosque in Bangladesh from the sultanate period (1204-1576). It was built during the Bengal Sultanate by Ulugh Khan Jahan, the governor of the Sundarbans.
It has been described as “one of the most impressive Muslim monuments in the whole of the Indian subcontinent.”
Composition: Paper
Size: 127*60 mm
Shape: Rectangular
Script language: Bengali
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