Salimullah Orphanage

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Salimullah Orphanage, also known as Sir Salimullah Muslim Orphanage, is a historic orphanage in Bangladesh. It was founded in 1907 as Islamia Orphanage by Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah, the Nawab of Dhaka, and was first housed in a rented building near Ahsan Manzil. In 1913, the Bengal governor Thomas Gibson-Carmichael visited the orphanage, donated 1,000 rupees, and gave land near Gore Shaheed Mosque in Amlapara. After Sir Salimullah died, the orphanage took his name. The government nationalized the orphanage on January 2, 2008. Before nationalization, some land was sold in 2003, and management corruption was a major problem. On September 17, 2015, the Bangladesh High Court ordered Concord Group to hand over an 18-storey building in Azimpur to Salimullah Orphanage, ruling it was illegally built on the orphanage's land.