HeritageSubmitted by: Arif Ahmed
Chitreswari Kali Temple
This old Kali temple near Chitpur Road has a story I only heard from my grandmother: dacoits are said to have prayed here before setting out on their raids.
Chitpur
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Gems of Kolkata
Welcome to the living archive of our city. Discover, wander, and celebrate the beautiful architectural nooks, local tea joints, and cultural cornerstones suggested and documented by citizens.
HeritageSubmitted by: Ritwik Chakraborty
Cossipore Udyanbati
A peaceful garden house behind a busy road. Sri Ramakrishna spent his last months here in 1886, and the place still feels quieter than anywhere else in Kashipur.
Kashipur / Cossipore
Culture & CraftSubmitted by: Niladri Bhattacharya
Kumartuli's inner workshop lanes
Skip the main road and turn into the narrow lanes. Bamboo frames, straw bodies and half-finished clay faces line both sides, and the artisans don't mind if you watch.
Kumartuli
LandmarksSubmitted by: Trisha Nandy
Ahiritola Ghat
Early morning is the time to come. People bathe, priests set up, boats drift past, and you get a sense of how old this stretch of the Hooghly really is.
Ahiritola
HeritageSubmitted by: Imran Chowdhury
Shobhabazar Rajbari
The courtyard where Raja Nabakrishna Deb hosted Robert Clive after Plassey is still there, and the Durga Puja has not missed a year since 1757.
Shobhabazar
MarketsSubmitted by: Arijit Dasgupta
Burrabazar before sunrise
Get here by five in the morning. Handcarts, sacks, tea stalls and traders speaking every Indian language, all before the rest of the city has woken up.
Burrabazar
HeritageSubmitted by: Trisha Sen
Rani Rashmoni's Janbazar Rajbari
Tucked behind the traffic on S.N. Banerjee Road is the mansion of the woman who built Dakshineswar and took on the British over fishing rights on the Hooghly.
Janbazar
HeritageSubmitted by: Poulami Lahiri
Jorasanko Thakurbari
Everyone knows Tagore was born here, but fewer people wander the back rooms and verandahs where Abanindranath painted and the whole family rehearsed plays.
Jorasanko
HeritageSubmitted by: Niladri Ganguly
South Park Street Cemetery
Just off the busiest road in the city is a walled garden of enormous eighteenth-century tombs. Park Street was once called Burial Ground Road because of this place.
Park Street
MarketsSubmitted by: Kaushik Mitra
Tiretta Bazaar Chinese breakfast
Come before seven. Steamed buns, pork dumplings, fish-ball soup sold from baskets on the pavement, and by eight it is all gone.
Tiretta Bazaar
LandmarksSubmitted by: Rituparna Naskar
Park Circus Maidan
The big open ground and the circular crossing are where the Great National Circus once pitched its tents, which is how the whole para got its name.
Park Circus
HeritageSubmitted by: Tanmoy Sen
Mother House on AJC Bose Road
The Missionaries of Charity headquarters is just a grey building with a small sign, but Mother Teresa's tomb is inside and anyone can walk in quietly.
Entally
HeritageSubmitted by: Chandan Poddar
New Market's clock tower
Built in 1874 for Europeans only, this Gothic red-brick market has burned twice and still stands. Look up at the clock tower before you go in.
New Market
HeritageSubmitted by: Shubhankar Ganguly
Fairlawn Hotel
A green-painted colonial hotel from 1936 that hosted everyone from film crews to the Hippie Trail backpackers. The verandah bar feels like a different decade.
Sudder Street
HeritageSubmitted by: Rudra Bhadra
Magen David Synagogue
I had walked past the red-brick spire on Canning Street a hundred times before I realised it was a synagogue, and one of the most beautiful buildings in the city.
Ezra Street
HeritageSubmitted by: Aritra Bhowmick
Armenian Church of the Holy Nazareth
The oldest church in Kolkata, consecrated in 1724, built by a community that was trading here before the British arrived. The graveyard has stones older than the city.
Armenian Street
MarketsSubmitted by: Aparajita Das
Free School Street's book and record shops
If you like old paperbacks, gramophone records and things nobody else sells, the pavement shops here can keep you busy for a whole afternoon.
Free School Street / Mirza Ghalib Street
HeritageSubmitted by: Suvankar Nag
Prinsep Memorial
The white Palladian monument by the river was built in 1843 not for a king but for James Prinsep, the scholar who cracked the Brahmi script.
Prinsep Ghat
LandmarksSubmitted by: Ayan Roy
Kolkata Police headquarters, Lalbazar
The red building on Lalbazar Street has been the police headquarters since the 1800s. You cannot go in, but the facade and the old gates are worth a slow walk past.
Lalbazar
HeritageSubmitted by: Kingshuk Poddar
Bhukailash Rajbari
You would not expect a grand old rajbari in the middle of Kidderpore, but the Ghosal family palace is still standing here with its twin Shiva temples.
Kidderpore
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