List of mosques in Kolkata
Kolkata is the capital city of West Bengal, a state in the eastern part of India.The city is more than 300 years old (as Kolkata) and was the capital of British India till early 1911.Kolkata hosts many churches, temples and mosques, along with other religious places.Muslims have been settling in Calcutta since the early 19th century, but the pace was accelerated from the 1860s onwards, mainly due to the harsh economic conditions in Bihar and the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.[citation needed] In 1942, the last mosque was built in Kolkata (in Entally).