Tanbazar
Sign in to saveTanbazar, or Tanbazaar () was a 2,000-room brothel complex in Narayanganj, central Bangladesh. Until its closure in 1999, it was the largest brothel in the country, with 3,500 prostitutes working there.
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It sits within the topics Brothels in Bangladesh, Populated places in Narayanganj District and Red-light districts in Bangladesh.
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Tanbazar, or Tanbazaar () was a 2,000-room brothel complex in Narayanganj, central Bangladesh. Until its closure in 1999, it was the largest brothel in the country, with 3,500 prostitutes working there.
==History== The brothel was set up in 1888 during British rule. At the time, Narayanganj was one of the biggest duty-free ports in Asia. The British who settled there coerced women from villages to provide entertainment for them. Later these women were discarded and socially boycotted. The women gathered in Tanbazar and the brothel became established.
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