St. Paul's Cathedral

عن St. Paul's Cathedral

St. Paul's Cathedral was consecrated on 8 October 1847 as the first Anglican cathedral built outside Great Britain and remains the seat of the Diocese of Calcutta under the Church of North India as of 2026. Major William Nairn Forbes, a military engineer, and architect C. K. Robison designed the building in an Indo-Gothic style that borrows its tower and spire proportions from Norwich Cathedral while substituting lightweight, high-compression bricks and Chunar sandstone ashlar for the solid stone construction unworkable in Calcutta's climate and soil. The 201-foot spire has been rebuilt twice, after earthquakes in 1897 and 1934 brought the original tower down, with the second reconstruction modelled instead on the Bell Harry tower of Canterbury Cathedral. Inside, the west window was made by Morris & Co. to a design by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and two Florentine-style frescoes flank the chancel — decorative choices that place a distinctly English artistic movement inside a building adapted for a Bengal monsoon.

أفضل وقت في اليوم: 09:00 – 10:30. When morning light through the Burne-Jones west window is strongest and the nave is uncrowded ahead of tour groups arriving from Victoria Memorial.

مواعيد St. Paul's Cathedral

يفتح St. Paul's Cathedral 09:00–12:00 and 15:00–18:00. يوم السبت يفتح 09:00–12:00 and 15:00–18:00، ويوم الأحد 07:30–18:00.

ساعات العمل

09:00–18:00

Mon–Sat	09:00–12:00 and 15:00–18:00
Sunday	07:30–18:00

Monday – Saturday: 09:00 – 12:00 and 15:00 – 18:00; Sunday: 07:30 – 18:00 for services and viewing

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مفتوح كل يوم

تم جمع ساعات العمل من wbtourism.gov.in والسجلات العامة، وآخر تحديث في 18 سبتمبر 2026. قد تتغيّر دون إشعار مسبق — تأكد منها قبل السفر. كيف نكتب هذه الأدلة

سعر تذكرة St. Paul's Cathedral

A nominal ₹10 entry donation applies to visitors outside service hours; the cathedral is free to enter for anyone attending a scheduled service. As of 2026, verify at the counter, since this donation was introduced relatively recently to fund upkeep.

تم جمع الأسعار من wbtourism.gov.in والسجلات العامة، وآخر تحديث في 18 سبتمبر 2026. قد تتغيّر دون إشعار مسبق — تأكد منها قبل السفر. كيف نكتب هذه الأدلة

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   Pair the cathedral with Victoria Memorial and the Indian Museum for a single Chowringhee-area morning circuit — all three sit within a fifteen-minute walk of each other around the Maidan's eastern edge. The cathedral's gardens, planted with mature rain trees, are a genuinely quiet spot to sit even outside visiting hours, since the boundary wall mutes most of the Maidan's traffic noise. Weekday mornings before 10:30 offer the best light through the west window and the fewest overlapping tour groups; by contrast, arriving after 11:00 on a weekend often means sharing the nave with two or three coach parties at once. The cathedral's small gift counter sells a printed history booklet covering the two earthquake reconstructions in more architectural detail than any signage inside the building provides.

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1, Cathedral Road, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700071الاتجاهات في خرائط Google

• من Maidan Metro Station (Blue Line)

  ₹20–₹30

  0.7 km · 9–12 min

  Metro fare from Esplanade

• من Park Street

  1.3 km · 15 min walk / 6–8 min taxi

  Free (walk) or ₹60–₹90 (taxi)

• من Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport

  ₹450–₹650

  18 km · 40–65 min

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