Jeliatola Naba Durga Puja Samityজেলিয়াটোলা নবদুর্গা পূজা সমিতি

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Historical Archive

Naba Durga Puja Samity has been organising Durga Puja for a very long time. These photographs are a small sample from our archive. Do share your own memories of our puja with us.

The Naba Durga idols in an earlier yearMembers before the idolsLamp lit before the goddessThe Naba Durga ensembleMembers and children at the pandalYoung devotees with offeringsClose-up of the goddessesMa Durga and the lionThe goddess slaying MahishasuraDevotees gathered at the pandalThe Naba Durga idolsThe idols lit up at nightAn early, faded photograph of the idolsDashabhuja Durga with garlandsCrowds at the pandal at nightSandhani Athletic Club puja greeting card, 1998–99 — motto, slogan and pledgeLetter of good wishes from the office of the Governor of West Bengal, 30 September 1997The pandal gatewayKumari pujaKumari pujaLighting lamps for the aartiThe many-tiered aarti lampHoma — the sacred fireRituals at the pandalPriests before the idolsThe goddess and the asuraWomen of the para in red-and-white sarisDecorating the idolsDevotees in red-bordered sarisProcession through the laneThe Jeliatola Nabadurga Puja Samity bannerThe priest at worshipKumari pujaKumari puja ritualsMa Durga in her ascetic formDhakis lead the processionDhakis and devotees on the moveThe face of Ma DurgaThe pandal entrance

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