Durga Puja - the ceremonial worship of the mother goddess, is one of the most important festivals of India. Apart from being a religious festival for the Hindus, celebration of traditional culture and customs. While ten days of fast, feast and worship,but the last four days - Saptami, Ashtami, Navami and Dashami - are celebrated with much gaiety and grandeur in India and abroad, especially in Bengal, where the ten-armed goddess riding the lion is worshipped with great passion and devotion.

The First Durga Puja in Bengal

The first grand worship of Goddess Durga in recorded history is said to have been celebrated in the late 1500s. Folklores say the landlords or zamindar of Dinajpur and Malda initiated the first Durga Puja in Bengal. According to another source, Raja Kangshanarayan of Taherpur or Bhabananda Mazumdar of Nadiya organized the first Sharadiya or Autumn Durga Puja in Bengal in c 1606.

In 1911, with the shifting of the capital of British India to Delhi, many Bengalis migrated to the city to work in government offices. The first Durga Puja in Delhi was held in c. 1910, when it was performed by ritually consecrating the 'mangal kalash,' symbolizing the deity. This Durga Puja, which celebrates its centennial in 2009, is also known as the Kashmere Gate Durga Puja currently organized by the Delhi Durga Puja Samiti in the lawns of Bengali Senior Secondary School, Alipur Road, Delhi.

Bengalis comes to the city Bhiwadi and form a committee named Bhiwadi Cultural Assotiation (B.C.A.). First time the members of this association started sarbajanin Durga Puja in c.1988, at Sec-3, R.H.B.Colony, Durga Park. At that time few Bengali member along with support of residents of Bhiwadi, Govt. Dept. & All esteemed Organisation for their valuable guidance and co-operation to make the �Durga Puja� a grand success.

The member of association on this auspicious Durga Puja Festival cordially invite you along with your family and friends in our Sector-3, Housing Board,  Durga Park Puja Pandal to seek the Blessings of Goddess Durga.