Old Chinatown Exploration

পুরনো চিনাপাড়া

Clan temples, brick barracks and a Kali for a Portuguese poet

The lanes between Tiretta Bazaar and Bowbazar hold Chinese temples called churches, the Anglo-Indian Bow Barracks and a Bengali Buddhist monastery.

Difficulty

Easy

When to start

Start at 6:30 AM with breakfast. The temples are most likely to be open in the morning.

Getting to the start

Central metro (Blue Line), then 7 minutes on foot.

The route

1. Tiretta Bazaar Chinese Breakfast The dawn breakfast market.
2. Sea Ip Church A 1905 clan temple. Entry is at the caretaker’s discretion.
3. Toong On Church The brick temple that housed the country’s first Chinese restaurant.
4. Bow Barracks A residential lane of red-brick blocks. Walk through quietly.
5. Bauddha Dharmankur Sabha The monastery that named Buddhist Temple Street.
6. Firingi Kalibari The temple of the "foreigner" poet Anthony Firingee.

Other walks

• Old North Kolkata Walk
• College Street Book Trail
• Kumartuli Art Trail
• Riverfront Trail
• Colonial Kolkata Walk
• Bengal Renaissance Trail
• Many Faiths Walk
• Food Heritage Trail
• South Kolkata Cultural Trail
• Behala Heritage Trail
• Baranagar Riverside Trail
• Barrackpore Heritage Trail