Things to do in Benjanhari Acharial, West Bengal
Benjanhari Acharial is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Budge Budge police station in the Budge Budge I CD block in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
30 places to visit in and around Benjanhari Acharial, best known first. Tap a place for directions, or let Turkart turn them into a day-by-day plan.
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- 1Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet, in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.
- 2Fort William, West Bengal
Fort William, officially Vijay Durg, is a fort in Hastings, Calcutta. It was built during the early years of Britain's administration of Bengal.
- 3Sabarna 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.
- 4Kalighat Temple
- 5Indian Museum
The Indian Museum is a grand museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world and the oldest, as well as the largest museum in Asia, by size of collection.
- 6Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
- 7Alipore Central Jail
The Alipore Jail or Alipore Central Jail, also known as Presidency Correctional Home, is a defunct Indian prison in Alipore, Kolkata, where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It also housed the Alipore Jail Press.
- 8Birla Planetarium, Kolkata
The Birla Planetarium in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is a single-storeyed circular structure designed in the typical Indian style, whose architecture is loosely styled on the Buddhist Stupa at Sanchi.
- 9Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary
Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary, formerly known as Kayaler Bagan, is a bird sanctuary located in West Bengal, India, south of Kolkata. This garden is famous for its wide variety of birds, butterflies, ferns and orchids.
- 10St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata
- 11Gurusaday Museum
The Gurusaday Museum is a folk arts and crafts museum located in Kolkata, India.
- 12Zoological Garden, Alipore
- 13Birla Industrial & Technological Museum
- 14State 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…
- 15Rabindra Sarobar
- 16Achipur Chinese Temple
Achipur Chinese Temple is a historic Chinese temple complex situiated at Achipur, in South 24 Parganas district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is considered as one of the oldest surviving Chinese religious sites in India.
- 17Narendrapur Wildlife Sanctuary
Narendrapur Wildlife Sanctuary in South 24 Parganas District, West Bengal is an Orchard Plantation and constitutes only 17 acres and is rich in smaller birds, specially paradise flycatcher, oriole, etc.
- 18Birla Mandir, Kolkata
- 19Shaheed Minar, Kolkata
- 20Lake Kalibari
- 21Babu Ghat
- 22Radhakanta Temple, Chetla
- 23Asutosh Museum of Indian Art
- 24Pathrakaliamman Temple
- 25State Bank Archives and Museum
The State Bank Archives and Museum is an initiative to document and preserve the history of banking in the Indian subcontinent. The archive and museum opened on 13 May 2007 in the State Bank of India headquarters in Kolkata.
- 26Tipu Sultan Masjid Tollygunge
- 27Experimenter Gallery
- 28Jamini Roy Museum
- 29Shri Laxminarayan Temple, Kolkata
- 30Hastings Chapel, Kolkata