Durga Puja in Pathuriaghata–Jorabagan and Bonedi

The old merchant quarter of north Kolkata, north of Burrabazar and back from the river. These are the streets of the great nineteenth-century family houses, and the pujas here include some of the city's bonedi bari pujas — family pujas held in private courtyards rather than in street pandals.

In this dataset it sits in the North & Central zone, and it carries twelve pujas.

Slow, narrow and worth the effort. Lanes here are genuinely tight and often one-way for traffic, which makes them better on foot than in anything with wheels. Bonedi bari pujas are held in people's homes: check whether visitors are being received before walking into a courtyard.

Crowds build through the evening and peak between about eight and eleven at night from Saptami onwards. The same walk on Chaturthi or Panchami, or before ten in the morning on any day, is a different and much easier experience.

All twelve have a confirmed position, so every one of them can go into a route, show a distance from where you are standing, and appear on the map.

The dataset records them as community puja and bonedi bari.

Pathuriaghata–Jorabagan and Bonedi sits in the North & Central zone alongside eleven other neighbourhoods this site lists pujas in: Hatibagan–Hedua–Beadon (13), Tala–Belgachia (11), Baghbazar (5), Kankurgachi–Ultadanga (5), Maniktala–Goabagan (4), Beliaghata (3), Kumartuli (3), Sovabazar–Beniatola (3), and others.

Those counts are worth reading as a rough measure of how much walking a neighbourhood will give you rather than as a ranking — a para with four pujas within three hundred metres of each other is a better evening than one with eleven spread over two kilometres.

The zone guide below has the whole picture, and every neighbourhood on it has a page of its own.

Tap Add to route on any puja below and it joins your route plan. The Route Planner orders your stops, draws the walk between the ones whose positions are confirmed, and keeps the list on this device between visits — so you can build the evening at home and follow it on the street.

Nothing on this page describes a 2026 theme, a timing or a crowd level, because no such thing has been published for these pujas. Where the site knows something it says it; where it does not, it leaves the line blank rather than filling it. A pandal listing with an invented opening time is worse than one with no opening time at all.

Names come from the PujoKolkata master dataset, which is the editorial source of truth for what these pujas are called, which neighbourhood they sit in and how they are organised. Coordinates come separately, from two sources: the IndianOil–Kolkata Police Puja Guide, and community-curated puja maps of the city. Where both know a puja the guide wins, and where a position is only roughly known the puja page says so. Nothing here is geocoded from an address or a postcode: a pin derived that way looks exactly as real as a true one while sending you to the wrong street.

If a puja you know is missing, or something here is wrong, it is a gap in the dataset rather than a judgement. The list is rebuilt from the source on every deploy, so a correction there appears here automatically.