Serampore

Serampore is a famous and historical city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarter of the Srirampore subdivision. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It is a pre-colonial town on the west bank of the Hooghly River. It used to be the major trading centre during Danish India, before British East India Company acquired the Denmark’s holdings in India in 1845. William Carey, the first Baptist missionary to India, founded the Serampore College in 1818. The college boasts of a library that was once the country’s largest storehouse of literature.

You can also visit in Serampur, the Eglise du Sacre Coeur: the Sacred Heart Church, which is the former French outpost of Chandernagar. Next to it is the 18th-century mansion that now inhabits the Cultural Institute Chandernagar, housing collections that talk about this colonial outpost. Situated 41 km north of Kolkata in vicinity to Saptagram, it was the trading port of great importance and that’s too long before the rise of Kolkata as a city of prominence.