Pujaverse
Barasat Kali Puja in 3D
Walk through a Kali Puja night in Barasat, West Bengal, from your phone, computer or a Meta Quest headset. Visit the theme pandals, take darshan of towering Kali idols, wander the mela under Chandannagar lights, ride the fair and watch the stage. It is free, works in the browser and needs no app.
▶ Enter the 3D pujaThe pandals
🛕 Golden Palace
A gilded palace pandal with a towering Kali idol and a shining forecourt.
🏔️ Himalayan
Snow peaks and caves around Ma Kali, as if the puja had moved to the mountains.
🛕 Shikhara
A temple-spire pandal in the style of Bengal's terracotta and stone temples.
🥁 Para Puja
A neighbourhood puja under a striped shed, with dhak players at the gate.
🛕 Navaratna
A nine-spired temple pandal, lit from top to bottom.
🏔️ Kailash Parvat
A mountain of lights with an LED light show in the fair garden.
Lights, fireworks and fanush
Arches of Chandannagar lighting over the avenues, LED walls and light panels, sky beams, fireworks over the ground and paper fanush (sky lanterns) rising into the Amavasya night.
The mela and the fair
🍢 Food street
Phuchka, ghugni, egg rolls and mishti at the stalls; talk to the vendors and buy a plate.
🧸 Toys & bangles
Glass bangles, clay dolls, balloons and toy stalls along the lanes.
🎡 Fair rides
Giant wheel, nagordola, merry-go-round, pirate ship, chorki and a toy train. Board them and ride.
🎪 Circus & Maut-ka-kuan
The big-top circus and the motorbike well of death.
🎯 Games alley & food court
Balloon shooting, ring toss and a busy food court.
🧺 Handicrafts
Stalls of dokra, terracotta and other crafts.
On the stage
- Dhunuchi naach with dhak and shehnai
- Shyama Sangeet with harmonium
- Baul gaan with ektara and dubki
- Rabindra nritya with tabla and flute
Sound is positional: the dhak gets louder as you walk up to the pandal, and the mela hums around you.
Go with friends
See other visitors walking the ground. Make a group of up to four with a code or an invite link, talk by voice chat, sit together at the ghat, and call everyone to the place you are: open the map, tap the Circus, and your friends can teleport there with one tap.
How to visit
- Phone: open pujaverse.net/kalipuja, drag to look around and use the joystick to walk. The map lets you teleport to any pandal or ride. Add it to your Home Screen to come back in one tap.
- Computer: drag to look, W A S D to walk, or follow the guided parikrama.
- Meta Quest: open pujaverse.net/kalipuja in the Quest Browser and press Enter VR. Walk, teleport, ride, pranam with your own hands, and press B / Y for the menu and map.
About this project
A fictional 3D composite inspired by Barasat's Kali Puja, based on public photos and news coverage. Club names and pandal designs are invented; not affiliated with any puja committee.