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Nakhoda Mosque

The Nakhoda Masjid is a Sunni , located in , in the state of , . The mosque is situated in the area of the Burrabazar business district in Central Kolkata, at the intersection of Zakaria Street and Rabindra Sarani.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Description: mosque in India
  • Also known as: “Nakhoda Masjid”
Photo: Sammya Brata, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Howrah Bridge and Magen David Synagogue.

Photo: rajaraman sundaram, CC BY 3.0.
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 the both sides of cities of Kolkata. is situated 1¼ km northwest of Nakhoda Mosque.

Synagogue
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
is located at the junction of Brabourne Road and Canning Street in . Magen David is the second operating synagogue in Kolkata, the other is the Beth El Synagogue at Pollock Street. is situated 430 metres west of Nakhoda Mosque.

Museum
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
is a Haveli in , , , , 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. is situated 1 km north of Nakhoda Mosque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jorasanko and B. B. D. Bagh.

Suburb
Photo: P.K.Niyogi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighbourhood of , in , West Bengal, India. It is so called because of the two wooden or bamboo bridges that spanned a small stream at this point.

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, short of Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, is the colonial-era precinct of . Formerly known as Dalhousie Square or simply Dalhousie, the precinct takes a visitor back to the British Raj era with nostalgic overtones.

Suburb
, also spelt Boubazar; formerly known as Bahubazar) is a neighbourhood of , in in the state of .

Nakhoda Mosque

Latitude
22.57761° or 22° 34′ 39″ north
Longitude
88.3561° or 88° 21′ 22″ east
Open location code
7MJCH9H4+2C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 325837615
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q12062296
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Nakhoda Mosque” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مسجد ناخودا”
  • Bengali: “নাখোদা মসজিদ”
  • Chinese: “纳克霍达清真寺”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد ناخودا”
  • French: “mosquée de Nakhoda”
  • French: “Mosquée de Nakhoda”
  • Ga: “Nakhoda Masjid”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Nakhoda Masjid”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Nakhoda Mosque”
  • Hausa: “Masallacin Nakhoda”
  • Hindi: “नाख़ुदा मस्जिद”
  • Japanese: “ナコダ・モスク”
  • Persian: “مسجد ناخدا”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱟᱠᱷᱚᱫᱟ ᱢᱚᱥᱡᱤᱫᱽ”
  • Sindhi: “ناخدا مسجد”
  • Twi: “Nakhoda Masjid”
  • Urdu: “ناخدا مسجد”
  • Western Panjabi: “ناخدا مسجد”

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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 Wikipedia page “Nakhoda Mosque”. Photo: DeepanjanGhosh, CC BY-SA 4.0.