Chowkidekhi


Chowkidekhi is a neighbourhood in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Situated next to a tea garden, Chowkidekhi has two mosques and one madrasa. There is a cemetery named after Syed Nasir Uddin Shah which contains his mazar. There are local legends that when he died, his body was laid on a wooden bed. When people turned around, his body just vanished. That's where the name "Chowkidekhi" came from meaning vanished from sight. The neighbourhood is about 3 miles south of Sylhet Osmani International Airport.