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The
Victoria Memorial.
A Victorian building, adorned with splendid white
marble slabs, is the most imposing building of the
Raj epoch.
It hosts
portraits and statues of famous personages of the history
of British India.
The daily
life of Indian people during the British colonization is
shown in the galleries.
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Nirmal
Hriday. Mother
Therèse's moribund people’s house stands near
Kali’s Temple |
Kolkata
Post Office
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Pareshmai
Jain Temple.
Built
in 1867 in honour of Seetalmathji, the decline of
the 24 jain great masters. The whole temple
is covered with mosaics made of tiny mirrors, coloured stones
and pieces of glass
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Busts near
Howrah Bridge or Rabindra Setu |
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Mother
Teresa -
Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her assistance to the poor
and the dying.
Canonized by the
Pope in October 2003, she is buried in the Mother Home below
a white cement slab reading as follows: "Love each other
as I loved you". There are also the room where
Mother Teresa lived, a chapel to hear Mass and other rooms.
Quite near there
there are "shelters" hosting the Prendan orphanage where
300 children are cared after. They are orphans or physically
handicapped, or mentally disturbed or ill. They are treated
by the Charity Sisters or by volunteers coming from
all over the world.
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Saint Paul's Cathedral in the distance.
It is the main Christian Church in Calcutta. On the right the foreroom of the crematorium near the Hoogly,
called Ganga, in the neighbourhood of Nimala Gnat |
The Marble Palace
built for Raja
Rajendro Mullick Bahadur in 1835. Marble busts, candlesticks,
golden clocks and ceramic statuettes adorn the inside |
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| Bishnupur. It is famous for the many wonderful terracotta temples. It stands km 160 of Kolkata in the province of Bankura. It takes 6 hours' ride by coach to reach it from Kolkata. The temples are built in a fusion of Bengalese, Islamic, Orissan styles.
On the front of several temples there are detailed scenes of Indian historical events of Ramajana and Mahabharata. The photos here below represent views of the Temple of Ras Mancha, 17th century B.C., the Temple Shyan Rai built by King Malla in 1643 B.C., the Temple Jor Bangla -1655 B.C.,
the Big Gate ,the Small Gate, and the Temple Madan Mohan built in 1694 B.C. |
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The exhibition of
flowers of a
hawker in the
Flower Market
of Sudden street
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| Botanic Gardens. They lie on the west bank if the Hoogly and cover 100 hectares. They were planned in 1786 by Colonel Robert Kyd fron the East India Company. The garden played a major role in the growing of tea plantations. There is a banana tree said to be 2 centuries old, which is the main attraction of the garden. Its leaves are considered to be the second largest in the world. |
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Railway Train Museum |
A marble bust standing on a road in Kolkata.
No name can be read by me as it
is in Bengalese. |
The 48-metre-tall Sahid Minar is a monument in honour of Sir David Ochterlony who defeated Nepal troops in 1814. It stands on one side of a park called Maidan |
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