Dakshineswar
Dakshineswar is a suburb north of Kolkata, in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Considered the twin of Varanasi by locals, the suburb is famous for the riverside Kali temple.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Sukanta Pal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dakshineswar Kali Temple and Dakshineswar railway station.
Dakshineswar Kali Temple
Hindu temple
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Dakshineswar Kali Temple or Dakshineswar Kalibari is a Hindu navaratna style temple in Dakshineswar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River.
Dakshineswar railway station
Railway station
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Dakshineswar is a railway station on the Sealdah–Dankuni line in Dakshineswar. The Dakshineswar metro station is adjacent to Dakshineswar railway station. It serves the local areas of Dakshineswar in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, India.
Dakshineswar metro station
Metro station
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Dakshineswar is the elevated northern terminal metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunlop and Cossipore.
Dunlop
Suburb
Dunlop is a neighbourhood in Baranagar of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.
Cossipore
Suburb
Cossipore is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. One of the oldest neighbourhoods of the metropolis, it has a police station. Cossipore is situated 4½ km south of Dakshineswar.
Konnagar
Town
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Konnagar is a town on the western bank of the Hooghly River, in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Konnagar is situated 5 km north of Dakshineswar.
Dakshineswar
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood in Kamarhati, West Bengal, India
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Barrackpur II, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.65575° or 22° 39′ 21″ northLongitude
88.36064° or 88° 21′ 38″ eastElevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
7MJCM946+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 13426545779OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Tamil—“Dakshineswar” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “দক্ষিণেশ্বর”
- Bengali: “দক্ষিনেশ্বর)”
- Catalan: “Dakshineswar”
- Dutch: “Dakshineswar”
- French: “Dakshineswar”
- Hindi: “दक्षिणेश्वर”
- Portuguese: “Dakshineswar”
- Spanish: “Dakshineswar”
- Tamil: “தட்சினேஸ்வரம்”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Dakshineswar”. Photo: Sukanta Pal, CC BY-SA 4.0.