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Flowers, candles and pictures of piety across Kolkata cemeteries on All Souls Day

The MK team of photographers brings you visuals from Lower Circular Road, South Park Street and Bhowanipore cemeteries

My Kolkata Web Desk Kolkata Published 02.11.23, 08:22 PM
Roses to marigold garlands, myriad species of flowers were in huge demand right from early morning on Thursday even as Catholic Christians headed out to various cemeteries across Kolkata to pay respect to their forefathers on All Souls Day
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Roses to marigold garlands, myriad species of flowers were in huge demand right from early morning on Thursday even as Catholic Christians headed out to various cemeteries across Kolkata to pay respect to their forefathers on All Souls Day

Sannidh Roychoudhury and Soumyajit Dey
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Catholic priests and nuns were seen at the Lower Circular Road Cemetery on Thursday offering prayers at graves. Ranajoy Bose, executive member of the Christian Burial Board, said: ‘The celebration in India also observes All Saints Day the previous day, November 1, when the church pastors or parish priests come and remember the saints and other pastors by offering prayers from the morning at their graves. It’s a bit like Shab-e-Barat among the Muslims and to some extent like Mahalaya among the Hindus to offer prayers to the ancestors’
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Catholic priests and nuns were seen at the Lower Circular Road Cemetery on Thursday offering prayers at graves. Ranajoy Bose, executive member of the Christian Burial Board, said: ‘The celebration in India also observes All Saints Day the previous day, November 1, when the church pastors or parish priests come and remember the saints and other pastors by offering prayers from the morning at their graves. It’s a bit like Shab-e-Barat among the Muslims and to some extent like Mahalaya among the Hindus to offer prayers to the ancestors’

Soumyajit Dey and Sannidh Roychoudhury
Flowers, candles and silent prayers said it all at the Bhowanipore Cemetery, which is located in Alipore
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Flowers, candles and silent prayers said it all at the Bhowanipore Cemetery, which is located in Alipore

Arnab Dutta
An elderly woman lost in her thoughts near a loved one’s grave at the Lower Circular Road Cemetery
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An elderly woman lost in her thoughts near a loved one’s grave at the Lower Circular Road Cemetery

Soumyajit Dey
As dusk fell, more and more people started arriving at the Lower Circular Road Cemetery
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As dusk fell, more and more people started arriving at the Lower Circular Road Cemetery

Sannidh Roychoudhury
Heart-shaped glitzy balloons with ‘I Love You’ written on them at the Bhowanipore Cemetery
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Heart-shaped glitzy balloons with ‘I Love You’ written on them at the Bhowanipore Cemetery

Arnab Dutta
The graves at Bhowanipore cemetery let out a fragrant whiff and warm glow on Thursday evening
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The graves at Bhowanipore cemetery let out a fragrant whiff and warm glow on Thursday evening

Arnab Dutta
Tuberose garlands were also seen hung across crosses on graves
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Tuberose garlands were also seen hung across crosses on graves

Arnab Dutta
Candles let out a warm glow at the grave of poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt at the Lower Circular Road Cemetery
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Candles let out a warm glow at the grave of poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt at the Lower Circular Road Cemetery

Sannidh Roychoudhury
Colourful fairy lights adorn the entrance to the South Park Street Cemetery
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Colourful fairy lights adorn the entrance to the South Park Street Cemetery

Sannidh Raychaudhuri

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All Souls Day Christians Burial Ground Catholic Community All Saints Day Obeisance South Park Street Cemetery Lower Circular Road Cemetery Bhowanipore Cemetery
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