"ELEVEN SHIVA TEMPLE COMPLEX", ABHAYNAGAR, JESSORE, BANGLADESH: THE POTENTIAL HUB OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN REGENERATION

A historical building or complex that is several hundred years old must have undergone through changes due to various reason and most importantly degradation of time. Communities faced with the challenge of saving such heritage structures, especially one that has no immediately available use and is threatened with neglect or demolition. Though Bangladesh is a little country it has thousands of examples like this. But conservation of those building or site can plays an important role to create sustainable urban regeneration. That’s why it is important to ensure some attachment between the community and this structure. Only when the community will feel that this structure is their own asset, they will conserve it and that will be the most resilient process. In depth, this paper will discuss the potentiality of Eleven Temple Complex, Abhaynagar, Jessore as a hub of sustainable urban regeneration and the importance to grow the awareness of self-belongingness among the communities.