Kalighat

Temple dedicated to the goddess Kali in
the southern section of modern
Calcutta. This temple is several hundred
years old and is considered one of the
most important temples in Calcutta.
The city’s name is supposedly an
anglicized version of the temple’s name.
Local tradition claims that Kalighat
is one of the Shakti Pithas, a network
of sites sacred to the Goddess. Each
Shakti Pitha marks the site where a body
part of the dismembered goddess Sati
fell to earth, taking form there as a
different goddess; in the case of
Kalighat the body part was one of Sati’s
toes. See also pitha.