Mahammedpur is a village in Chhatak Upazila

Chhatak Upazila

Chhatak is an Upazila of Sunamganj District in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh.-Geography:Chhatak is located at . It has 43727 units of house hold and total area 434.76 km².-Demographics:...

 at the North-Eastern part of Bangladesh. Locally it is also known as Mamonpur. Mahammedpur is famous for the Mazar (Graveyard) of Hazrat Rahimullah Shah, a Saint of Islam. Hazrath Safath Shah, the father of Durbin Shah (Poet and Singer) also lived in this village. At the middle part of his life Safath Shah migrated from Mahammedpur to Durbin Tila in Chhatak.

Location

Mahammedpur is situated in the South-Eastern part of Chhatak upazilla, in the Sunamgonj district. It is 4.5 km. to the South of Dular Bazar and 3.5 Km. to the West of Singerkach Bazar. The Makunda River

Makunda River

The Makunda river is a branch of the Surma. Many important places such as Rajagonj, Boiragi Bazar, Lakeshbor, Buria and Jahidpur Bazar are established on the bank of the Makunda....

flows at the South-East side of Mahammedpur.

Population

About 1500 peoples live in Mahammedpur. 90% of the people depend on agriculture, 2% are Government employees and businessman. The rest people are abroad in the United Kingdom and in the Middle East.

Education

Mahammedpur Govt. Primary School is a famous School for its performance. It started its full activity on 1973. A Private School for infant namely Green Bird Kindergarten School established on 2010. The children of this village achieve their Arabic and Religious education in Mahammedpur Jame- Masque.

Communication

Mahammedpur is located about 20.50 Km to the South of Upazilla headquarter. People use Chhatak-Gobindagonj-Dularbazar Road and Sylhet-Bishawnath-Singerkach Road for communication with Mahammedpur.