File:Durga puja celebration at Ballygunge Cultural Association, 2009 P1210328 04.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (1,827 × 1,800 pixels, file size: 510 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Durga puja celebration at Ballygunge Cultural Association, 2009

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: Durga puja celebration at Ballygunge Cultural Association, 2009. Ballygunge Cultural Association is the most famous Sarbojanin (public) Durga idol kept at Ballygunge, a prominent locality in Kolkata in the state of West Bengal, during the Durga Puja festival. The idol is kept for public display for approximately 5 days; thereafter it is immersed in the Ganges at Babu Ghat on the auspicious day of Vijayadashami.

From 2017, this puja participates in the annual immersion carnival organised by the Government of West Bengal on the iconic Red Road in the city of Kolkata. In 2020, the Bullygunge Cultural Association entered 70 years.

Over 1 million people visit this Pandal daily during the Durga Puja festival.
Logo Wiki Loves Folklore This photo has been taken in the country: India
Date
Source Own work
Author Sumita Roy Dutta

Licensing

[edit]
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.


Wiki Loves Folklore
This image was uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 photographic contest.

العربية | български | বাংলা | čeština | Deutsch | English | français | हिन्दी | hrvatski | italiano | 日本語 | ಕನ್ನಡ | македонски | മലയാളം | मराठी | Bahasa Melayu | română | русский | slovenščina | ತುಳು | українська | 中文(中国大陆) | +/−

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current08:14, 25 February 2021Thumbnail for version as of 08:14, 25 February 20211,827 × 1,800 (510 KB)Sumita Roy Dutta (talk | contribs)Uploaded own work with UploadWizard

The following page uses this file:

Metadata