List of mosques in Kolkata

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Mosques in Kolkata refers to mosques in the city of Kolkata, India. Kolkata is the capital city of West Bengal, a state in the eastern part of India. The city is more than 300 years old (as Kolkata) and was the capital of British India till early 1911. Kolkata hosts many churches, temples and mosques, along with other religious places. Muslims have been settling in Calcutta since the early 19th century, but the pace was accelerated from the 1860s onwards, mainly due to the harsh economic conditions in Bihar and the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

Minaret of Nakhoda Mosque

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There are nearly 450 mosques (known as masjid in Urdu and Bengali) in Kolkata (from Ward 1 to Ward 141). Density is highest in the wards in the central part of the city, where the density of the Muslim population is higher. The most famous is the::

Like all growing cities, space is a problem in Kolkata. To accommodate the growing population, most of the mosques are expanding vertically. The structures are also getting changed from old style to new style, and the way of construction is changing.

In 1942, the last mosque was built in Kolkata (in Entally).

References

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  1. ^ Janice Leoshko. Calcutta through 300 years.
  2. ^ Shah, Zia H. (26 July 2014). "Contact Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Asia". The Muslim Times. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Contact Details". www.ahmadiyyabangla.org. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
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