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Durga Puja 2026

This autumn Jeliatola celebrates the 89th year of its sarbojanin puja. The days of the goddess are almost here. Here is everything you need to plan your visit.

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Puja calendar

Dates for Durga Puja 2026

Debipaksha begins with Mahalaya. The goddess is with us from Maha Shashthi until Bijoya Dashami. This year Saptami falls across two days.

  1. মহালয়া
    Mahalaya
    October · Saturday
  2. মহাষষ্ঠী
    Maha Shashthi
    October · Friday
  3. মহাসপ্তমী
    Maha Saptami
    –
    October · Sat–Sun
  4. মহাষ্টমী
    Maha Ashtami
    October · Monday
  5. মহানবমী
    Maha Navami
    October · Tuesday
  6. বিজয়া দশমী
    Bijoya Dashami
    October · Wednesday

Puja timings পূজা সময়সূচী

মহাষষ্ঠী Maha Shashthi

Friday 16 October

  • Shashthi puja ষষ্ঠী পূজা

মহাসপ্তমী Maha Saptami

Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 October

  • Saptami puja সপ্তমী পূজাSaturday
  • Saptami puja সপ্তমী পূজাSunday
  • Pushpanjali পুষ্পাঞ্জলিSaturday 17 and Sunday 18 October

মহাষ্টমী Maha Ashtami

Monday 19 October

  • Ashtami puja begins অষ্টমী পূজাLate on Sunday night
  • Pushpanjali পুষ্পাঞ্জলিNo more than two rounds of anjali
  • Ashtami puja ends
  • Sandhi puja সন্ধিপূজা

মহানবমী Maha Navami

Tuesday 20 October

  • Navami puja begins নবমী পূজা
  • Kumari puja কুমারী পূজা
  • Pushpanjali পুষ্পাঞ্জলি

বিজয়া দশমী Bijoya Dashami

Wednesday 21 October

  • Dashami puja দশমী পূজা

The road to Shashthi

Durga Puja 2026 so far

Our 89th puja is on its way: from the khuti puja in September to the last touches on the goddesses and the pandal.

Khuti puja খুঁটি পুজো

4 September 2026 · 5 photos

The season began on 4 September with the khuti puja, the worship of the bamboo pole that will hold up the pandal.

  • Members touch the khuti in prayer at the khuti puja
  • The priest performs the khuti puja in the lane
  • The khuti, garlanded with marigolds, against an old house of the para
  • A member bows his head to the khuti
  • Members and neighbours gather around the khuti after the puja

Preparations প্রস্তুতি

10–13 October 2026 · 13 photos · 1 video

A week before Shashthi, the goddesses were dressed in the workshop and the mountain backdrop went up in the pandal. Lights went up along the road, and on 13 October the nine goddesses were carried in and set in their places, with Ma Durga at the centre.

  • The face of Ma Durga takes shape in the workshop
  • The Himalayan backdrop goes up inside the pandal
  • Work continues on the pandal and its mountain backdrop
  • An artisan dresses the goddesses in red and gold
  • Arranging the goddess's long tresses
  • The goddesses and their lions, almost ready
  • Strings of lights go up on the old houses of the para
  • The lights stretch all along the road
  • The first goddess is set on the stage before the mountain backdrop
  • A goddess, her face still covered, is carried into the pandal
  • The nine goddesses take their places in the pandal
  • Ma Durga, with her lion and Mahishasura, arrives on a cart
  • Ma Durga takes her place at the centre of the nine goddesses

Video

The goddesses arrive

On 13 October, the team lifts the goddesses, faces still covered, onto the stage of the pandal one by one.

89 years open to all

Our 89th sarbojanin puja

Sri Hemchandra Bhattacharya first worshipped the nine forms of Ma Durga in his family shrine in 1932. In 1938, at the request of the neighbourhood, Sandhani Athletic Club of Jeliatola opened the puja to everyone. Counting from that first sarbojanin puja, Durga Puja 2026 is our 89th.

Every year since, the para has come together to keep the old rites with the same devotion. Eleven more pujas will bring us to our hundredth year.

Read our history
  • 1938

    The first sarbojanin pujaThe puja opens its doors to the whole neighbourhood.

  • 89thyear

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

  • 100thin 2037

    The road to our centenaryEleven more pujas to our hundredth year.

What to expect

Rituals of our puja

Our puja keeps the old rites of the para, from the first khuti puja to the last beat of the dhak at bisarjan.

  • Khuti puja

    Khuti puja

    খুঁটি পুজো

    Worship of the bamboo pole that will hold up the pandal. It opens the puja season in the para.

  • Photo coming soon

    Kola bou snan

    কলা বৌ স্নান

    On Saptami morning the nabapatrika is bathed in the Ganga and brought back to sit beside Ganesh.

  • Photo coming soon

    Homa & Sandhi puja

    হোম ও সন্ধিপুজো

    The sacred fire and the 108 lamps of the Sandhi puja, where Ashtami ends and Navami begins.

  • Photo coming soon

    Dhunuchi aarti

    ধুনুচি আরতি

    Earthen burners of coconut husk and dhuno, swung to the rhythm of the dhak in the evening aarti.

  • Photo coming soon

    Kumari puja

    কুমারী পুজো

    A young girl is worshipped as the living form of the goddess, a tradition kept in our pandal.

  • Photo coming soon

    Bijoya & bisarjan

    বিজয়া ও বিসর্জন

    Sindoor khela, sweets and embraces, then the procession with dhakis to bid Ma farewell till next year.

Last year

Look back at our 88th puja

Dates, the schedule poster and photos from Durga Puja 2025.

Durga Puja 2025

Getting here

Plan your visit

Our pandal stands in the lanes of Jeliatola, a short walk from Girish Park in the heart of North Kolkata.

Jeliatola Naba Durga Puja

  • Address15, Sudhir Chatterjee Street, Jeliatola, Kolkata 700006
  • Nearest metroGirish Park (Blue Line), a few minutes' walk
  • Durga Puja 2026Maha Shashthi to Bijoya Dashami · 16–21 October
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