 Other cultural landmarks in the area include
the Bangladesh National Museum, the National Public Library, and the Dhaka University Mosque and Cemetery, containing the graves of Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet, of painters Zainul Abedin and Quamrul Hassan, and of the teachers killed by Pakistani forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.The Shahbag area has a rich religious history.In the late 1920s, Sri Anandamoyi Ma, the noted Hindu ascetic, also known as the "Mother of Shahbag", built her ashram near Ramna Kali Mandir, or the Temple of Kali, at Ramna.