Barisha, Kolkata
Barisha is a residential and very old locality of South Kolkata in West Bengal, India.
Barisha is a residential and very old locality of South Kolkata in West Bengal, India. It is a part of Behala region and divided as Paschim Barisha and Purba Barisha.
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Worth seeing in and around Barisha, Kolkata
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Gurusaday Museum
The Gurusaday Museum is a folk arts and crafts museum located in Kolkata, India.
3.4 km · Folk arts and crafts museum in Kolkata, India · Wikipedia - 02State Archaeological Museum
State Archaeological Museum, West Bengal in Kolkata, West Bengal, is an archeological museum founded in 1962 and has collections including rare tools of the Early, Middle and the Late Stone Ages from Susunia and other sites, proto-historic antiquities from Pandu Rajar Dhibi, terracottas, sculptures, stone and stucco from the Gupta, Maurya, Shunga, Kushana, Pala and Medieval times. It is located at the vicinity of Behala Bazar Metro on Diamond Harbour Road and Nafar Chandra Das Road at Behala behind Siddeshwari Kali Temple There is also a section on ‘Historical Art’ opened in 1963 which displays large number of old terracottas, bronzes, wood-carvings, textiles and manuscripts.
1.7 km · museum in Kolkata · Wikipedia - 03Sabarna Sangrahashala
Sabarna Roy Choudhury was a Zamindar family of Mughal Bengal. They controlled significant swathes of territory, including what would later become Kolkata, prior to the sale of zamindari rights in 1698 to the East India Company.
600 m · museum in Kolkata, West Bengal · Wikipedia - 04Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College
Employees State Insurance-Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research & Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College and Hospital, Joka, is a NMC recognised medical college established in 2013 under the aegis of the ESI Corporation, an autonomous body, controlled by Government of India. This college received permission for 100 seats for this session from the National Medical Commission and is affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences.
3.9 km · postgraduate medical college in Kolkata, India · Wikipedia - 05Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur
Vivekananda College is a state government-aided public college, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, located in southwest Kolkata, close to the Thakurpukur metro station. The college offers both post-graduate and under-graduate courses in a number of subjects of science, arts and commerce.
2.3 km · College of West Bengal · Wikipedia - 06Tipu Sultan Masjid Tollygunge
The Tipu Sultan Masjid, also called Shaheed Tipu Sultan Masjid, is a Sunni mosque, located on Prince Anwar Shah Road in Tollygunge, Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal, India.
3.8 km · Mosque in Tollygunge, Kolkata · Wikipedia - 07Institute of Engineering and Management
Institute of Engineering & Management is an Autonomous engineering and management college located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is one of the oldest engineering college in West Bengal, founded in 1989.
3.2 km · educational institute in Kolkata · Wikipedia - 08Radhakanta Temple
The Radhanath Temple in Chetla, India built between 1796 and 1807 by Babu Ramnath Mondal of the Bawali Raj family, is one of the most prominent heritage temples along the old Adi Ganga. Designed in the traditional nabaratna Bengal temple architectural style and rising nearly 100 feet, it once formed part of a flourishing riverside cultural landscape of ghats, pathways, and zamindari estates.
3.6 km · temple in Kolkata · Wikipedia
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Getting to Barisha, Kolkata
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 23 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 261 km
- Stations
- Behala Airport, 2.9 km · Majerhat railway station, 3.9 km · Joka metro station, 3.8 km · Thakurpukur metro station, 2.4 km · Sakher Bazar Metro Station, 1.2 km
- Bhubaneswar → Barisha, Kolkata355 km · quickest by air, 4h 37m · ₹5,630–8,630
- Siliguri → Barisha, Kolkata471 km · quickest by air, 4h 57m · ₹6,250–9,560
- Guwahati → Barisha, Kolkata539 km · quickest by air, 5h 31m · ₹6,760–10,330
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- Get inPoint to point autorickshaws are available for slightly longer routes.
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- Get inCycle rickshaws are available at all stations for local travel.
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Next door to Barisha, Kolkata
Barisha, Kolkata is 7 km from Maheshtala, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- BehalaLocality of Kolkata600 m
- Jokaneighbourhood in Kolkata3.3 km
- Kaluacensus town in West Bengal3.4 km
- New Aliporelocality of Kolkata2.9 km
- Parnasree Pallyneighbourhood in Kolkata in West Bengal, India2.8 km
- Thakurpukurneighbourhood in Kolkata in West Bengal, India2.4 km