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Durga Puja 2025

In 2025 Jeliatola celebrated the 88th year of its sarbojanin puja. Thank you to everyone who came to see the nine forms of Ma Durga with us.

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Puja calendar

Dates for Durga Puja 2025

Debipaksha began with Mahalaya on 21 September. The goddess was with us from Maha Shashthi on 28 September until Bijoya Dashami on 2 October.

  1. মহালয়া
    Mahalaya
    September · Sunday
  2. মহাষষ্ঠী
    Maha Shashthi
    September · Sunday
  3. মহাসপ্তমী
    Maha Saptami
    September · Monday
  4. মহাষ্টমী
    Maha Ashtami
    September · Tuesday
  5. মহানবমী
    Maha Navami
    October · Wednesday
  6. বিজয়া দশমী
    Bijoya Dashami
    October · Thursday
Durga Puja 2025 schedule poster in Bengali, over a photograph of the Naba Durga idols

88 years open to all

Our 88th sarbojanin puja

The worship of Naba Durga began in 1932 in the family shrine of Sri Hemchandra Bhattacharya. In 1938 Sandhani Athletic Club of Jeliatola opened the puja to the whole neighbourhood. Counting from that first sarbojanin puja, Durga Puja 2025 was our 88th.

The schedule for the five days was shared on this poster, in Bengali. Tap it to see it larger.

Photos

Durga Puja 2025 in pictures

From the khuti puja to Bijoya Dashami: the nine goddesses, the lights over our lane, the kola bou on Saptami morning, and the people who made our 88th puja.

Khuti puja — members raise the sacred bamboo pole that begins the seasonOfferings laid out for the khuti pujaCommittee members and neighbours at the khuti pujaThe priest offers prayers at the base of the khutiThe Naba Durga idols, ready on the eve of Maha ShashthiThe Rtv Bangla Sharad Bangla Samman 2025 trophy and certificate, naming ours the best puja of the districtMembers and guests before the goddess on Maha Shashthi (photo: Rana Photography)Neighbours and visitors gather at the pandal on Maha Shashthi (photo: Rana Photography)Visitors in their puja best at the pandal on Shashthi afternoonLights over the lane leading to the pandal on Shashthi eveningA canopy of lights above our lane, late on Shashthi nightThe Zee 24 Ghanta Sharad Ananya banner at the pandalThe lane, draped and decorated, on a quiet Saptami morningThe kola bou (nabapatrika), dressed in a new sari on Saptami morningThe kola bou at the feet of the goddess on Maha SaptamiThe nine forms of Ma Durga on Maha SaptamiMaha Ashtami puja in progress before the goddessClose-up of Ma Durga on Bijoya DashamiMembers and families together before the goddess on Bijoya Dashami evening

Video

Maha Ashtami puja

A short clip from the Ashtami puja at our pandal on 30 September 2025, with the priests at worship before the nine forms of Ma Durga.

Coming up

Durga Puja 2026, our 89th year

Maha Shashthi to Bijoya Dashami, 16–21 October 2026.