Best places: Tourist attractions in Kolkata, India

Hindu temple known for its daily ritual of worshipping Lord Shiva with cremation ashes.

Colorful, multilevel place of worship for Lord Krishna, with an elaborate, flower-bedecked altar.

9 ornate spires top this riverside red and cream 1800s temple, with shrines to Krishna and Vishnu.

Temples, shrines & a museum dedicated to spiritual guru Sri Ramakrishna spread over a vast site.

The central dome of this vast modern temple houses a high-tech projected map of the constellations.

White marble place of worship built in the 1960s, with a 3-tiered altar & twice daily pooja rituals.

Ancient Hindu temple with colorful statues & shrines, plus a popular annual festival.

Ancestral home, now a research center & museum, of renowned Indian freedom fighter Netaji Bose.

👍👍 An age-old temple, standing tall in the heart of Kolkata for over three centuries. Even though this temple is small in terms of size, but it's popularity is equivalent to that of the revered Dakshineswar & Kalighat Temples. Everyday hundreds of devotees offer prayers at this sacred site, after purch...

Religious complex from the early 1700s with carved temples housing Shiva lingams & peaceful gardens.

Sizable mosque featuring a green dome & a sole minaret, plus a leafy cemetery with a fountain.

Colourful Hindu temple featuring a courtyard enclosed by compact domed-roof shrines.

👍👍 This temple is located near babubazar, crossing khidirpur area. It's a big, nice and cleaned temple. Paid puja service is available here. Bhog is available here but it is better to book it prior by phone. If you are coming by car, you can park it outside the temple.

👍👍 Nice place must visit eco-friendly

👍👍 It was an unexpected visit to this beautiful temple which put me to surprise. Lord Guruvayoorappan invited to have his Darshan. And the beauty is the temple is celebrating its 28th year, where various cultural programmes are conducted.

👍👍 What a peaceful and awestruck time I had! While the peaceful ambience of the place will leave you content, the beautiful and intricate designs and sculptures will leave you awestruck. Can't wait to go there again! And this time I'm gonna spend so much time there, i just know it. It's a place you don...

👍 Good and nice place to stroll around and have fun. It's a very long walking place near the ghats of the river ganga. A very popular place in the Chandannagar area. Lots of movies and serial shootings happened here. Many places like Rabindra bhavan, etc are there. Many eateries are here which people...

👍👍 Today, we will talk about a temple which, at first sight, would not believe that any such temple is in the chest of Kolkata. This temple, built in the whole of South Indian (Tamil) style, is located near Girish Park, next to the broken fly-over, Punta Kali temple. The temple is known as Sri Vaikunt...

👍👍 Alor Sandhana Amal Alo a regular yearly event; prize distribution ceremony

👍👍 one of the prominent seat of Gaudiya Vaishnavism houses one amongst the 3 paduka used by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, He stayed here for 3 days and was enchanted on listening Bhagavata path from Raghunath the then householder of this place and entitled him with the title of Bhagavatacharya. That palm...