Sahapur

Sahapur Durga Puja, South Kolkata

Sahapur is a locality in South Kolkata — around the New Alipore and Behala belt — that hosts several long-established community Durga Pujas. Among the documented celebrations are the Sahapur Sarbojanin Durgotsab Committee (Mrinalinidevi Smriti Rakshya Samity), based on Kailash Pandit Lane, New Alipore and tracing its origins to 1975, and the Sahapur Suhrid Sangha, among others in the Sahapur–Rajani Mukherjee Road area.

The Sahapur pujas are classic South Kolkata para celebrations: community-organised, traditional in their idol styling, and deeply woven into neighbourhood life. New Alipore and adjoining Sahapur form a dense puja map where residents move from one pandal to the next through the five days of the festival, balancing devotion with the social festival of pandal-hopping.

While the exact committee behind the “Sahapur” entry in this archive is not individually verified, the locality’s pujas share the character of South Kolkata’s community celebrations — modest in scale compared with the giant theme pandals, but rich in local participation, cultural programmes and the evening rituals of dhak, anjali and bhog.

• Location: Sahapur / New Alipore (South Kolkata).
• Known committees: Sahapur Sarbojanin (est. 1975), Sahapur Suhrid Sangha.
• Character: traditional community Durga Puja.

For visitors, the Sahapur–New Alipore pujas are a rewarding stop on a South Kolkata pandal-hopping route, offering the intimate, neighbourhood face of Kolkata’s UNESCO-recognised festival.