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This is a very old structure and its bell tower has one of the largest clock bell in India. I believe each bell weights more than 6 tons. They were originally cast in England and transported to Bengal. The structure was built by Muhammad Mohsin in 1861.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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There is a large central courtyard which has been spruced up now and has a fountain. I don’t think this was a part of the original design. But it looks good. When I visited, the Imambara did not look very well maintained. It needs to be whitewashed\/painted\/colored very badly. They had opened the monument post the lockdown just a few days before I visited. I am guessing that they would have come down to cleaning it up eventually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>The approach roads to the Imambara pass through congested by lanes. So one has to drive carefully if on a 4-wheeler. There is ample parking in front of the monument, one has to pay a small fee to the local persons who manage the parking space. There is no eating place in or around the Imambara. The best one can have is a cup of ‘Chaa’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>The best time to visit is the morning, and before 12 noon. Post that the place becomes humid and hot. Its located just on the banks of the river Hooghly.<\/p>\nTags: Clock Tower<\/a>, Hooghly Imambara<\/a>, Jawed Ahmed<\/a>, Largest Bell<\/a>, Places to Visit<\/a> I visited Hooghly Imambara in the last week of January 2021. I started out on normal highway bike ride. But halfway-through I took the right turn towards the old GT road and decided to visit the Imambara. This is a very old structure and its bell tower has one of the largest clock bell in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[59,58,14,61,60],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-clock-tower","tag-hooghly-imambara","tag-jawed-ahmed","tag-largest-bell","tag-places-to-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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