Tipu Sultan Mosque
The Tipu Sultan Mosque, officially known as the Tipu Sultan Shahi Mosque, also known locally as the Tipu Sultan Masjid, and formerly known as the Dharmatala Mosque, is a mosque located in Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal, India.Photo: DeepanjanGhosh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Mosque
- Description: mosque in Kolkata
- Also known as: “Prince Golam Mohammed Mosque”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Paradise Cinema and Raj Bhavan.
Paradise Cinema
Movie theater
Paradise Cinema is a single screen cinema hall located in Bentinck Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. This cinema hall was inaugurated in 1943 and was fully renovated in 1956. The current managing director of the theatre is Arun Mehra. Paradise Cinema is situated 140 metres north of Tipu Sultan Mosque.
Raj Bhavan
Government office
Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Raj Bhavan, officially known as Lok Bhavan and formerly as Government House is the official residence of the Governor of West Bengal, R. N. Ravi, located in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. Raj Bhavan is situated 520 metres west of Tipu Sultan Mosque.
Esplanade metro station
Metro station
Photo: Guru-45, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Esplanade is an underground interchange metro station on the North–South corridor of the Blue Line and the East–West corridor of the Green Line of the Kolkata Metro. Esplanade metro station is situated 230 metres southwest of Tipu Sultan Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Esplanade and Dharmatala.
Esplanade
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Esplanade is the modern heart of Kolkata, combining colonial-era buildings with modern developments. It serves as the city's new central business district and is preferred by major businesses, particularly along Chowringhee Road.
Dharmatala
Suburb
Dharmatala is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Dharmatala Street has been renamed after Lenin as Lenin Sarani but the neighbourhood up to Wellington Square continues to be referred as Dharmatala.
B. B. D. Bagh
Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
B. B. D. Bagh, short of Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, is the colonial-era precinct of Kolkata. Formerly known as Dalhousie Square or simply Dalhousie, the precinct takes a visitor back to the British Raj era with nostalgic overtones.
Tipu Sultan Mosque
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.5655° or 22° 33′ 56″ northLongitude
88.35209° or 88° 21′ 8″ eastOpen location code
7MJCH982+6ROpenStreetMap ID
node 4209581189OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q3349172
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tipu Sultan Mosque” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مسجد السلطان تيبو”
- Bengali: “টিপু সুলতান মসজিদ”
- Chinese: “蒂普苏丹清真寺”
- Dutch: “Tipu Sultan Mosque”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد السلطان تيبو”
- Esperanto: “Moskeo Sultano Tipu”
- Hindi: “टीपू सुल्तान मस्जिद”
- Indonesian: “Masjid Tipu Sultan”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Tipu Sultan”
- Persian: “مسجد تیپو سلطان”
- Santali: “ᱴᱤᱯᱩ ᱥᱩᱞᱛᱟᱱ ᱢᱚᱥᱡᱤᱫᱽ”
- Spanish: “Mezquita Tipu Sultan”
- Urdu: “ٹیپو سلطان مسجد”
- Western Mari: “Типу Султан мечеть”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹیپو سلطان مسجد”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Esplanade and Statue of Vladimir Lenin.
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