Sri Sri Karunamoyee Kali Mandir

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Sri Sri Karunamoyee Kali Mandir: 32, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Tollygunge, Kolkata-700082
Sabarna Roy Choudhury was a Zamindar of Bengal during the Mughal period. His family’s zamindari spread over a large area of Bengal. The East India Company later purchased the zamindari and established Calcutta, now Kolkata. One of the successors of that renowned Sabarna Roy Choudhury family, name Nandadulal Rowchowdhury in 1760, got a black stone under a banyan tree near Adi Ganga, following order in a dream by his deceased daughter. At that period, Adi Ganga was full of water and regularly had tides and ebbs. It was an important water transport route too. It was the old course of Ganga that has now shifted towards the west. Nandadulal crafted that stone into a beautiful sculpture of Ma Kali. He founded Ma Kali in a temple known as Sri Sri Karunamoyee Kali Mandir.
Nandadulal also built twelve temples of Lord Shiva within the mandir complex as could be seen in other Kali temples of Bengal.

Temple Timings in Covid situation:
Morning:6.00 am to 12.00 pm
Evening:5.00 pm to 9.00 pm
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One comment
Kankana Roy
February 19, 2022 at 4:16 pm
Wonderful article uncle