Girish Park

Girish Park is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata in in the state of . it is named after famous Bengali Theatre personnel Girish Chandra Ghosh.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Girish Park metro station and Jorasanko Thakur Bari.

Metro station
Photo: ArnabSaha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Girish Park is an underground metro station on the north–south corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro which is close to Girish Park in , , , India.

Museum
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is a Haveli in , North Kolkata, , , is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is the birthplace of poet Rabindranath Tagore and the host of the Rabindra Bharati University campus.

Photo: Pradip paswan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a balanced steel bridge over the in , . Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New , because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking both sides of Kolkata.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sovabazar and Jorasanko.

or Shobhabazar is an old neighbourhood in North Kolkata, based around the Rajbari. Despite facing economic stagnation nowadays, was once a part of the citadel of the Bengali aristocracy.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in , West Bengal, India. It is so called because of the two wooden or bamboo bridges that spanned a small stream at this point.

Photo: P.K.Niyogi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shyambazar is a prominent neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in in the Indian state of . The popularity of Shyambazar five point crossing is due to the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

Girish Park

Latitude
22.58699° or 22° 35′ 13″ north
Longitude
88.36401° or 88° 21′ 50″ east
Open location code
7MJCH9P7+QJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1188948117
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q55612676
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Dutch—“Girish Park” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “গিরিশ পার্ক”
  • Dutch: “Girish Park”

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