Frequently asked questions

Yes. Entry to view the idol, participate in rituals, and experience the celebration in Barcelona is entirely free and open to everyone — a multicultural week, not a closed community event.

17–21 October 2026 at Valid World Hall, Carrer de Buenaventura Muñoz 6, Barcelona.

A free Cultural Concert 2026 follows on Friday 23 October at 18:00 at Federació d’Entitats, Carrer de Calàbria 66.

Exact puja timings in Barcelona are announced closer to the event. View the schedule · Durga Puja 2026

Yes. You do not need to be Bengali or Hindu. This is a cross-community gathering in multicultural Barcelona: neighbours, friends, and anyone curious are welcome.

Children are welcome. Under 5s are free. Ages 5–12 have a child ticket if they want lunch and activities.

Main puja: Carrer de Buenaventura Muñoz 6 — Metro Arc de Triomf (L1).

Cultural programme: Carrer de Calàbria 66 — Metro Rocafort (L1).

Maps and directions

Official source Live metro times on the Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona site — opens in a new tab. tmb.cat

Tickets are for guaranteed entry, lunch, and other activities. They range from €35 to €65.

All tickets except the day pass are valid for every day of the puja (17–21 October 2026).

Fill in the registration form, then transfer the total to Bengali Cultural Association (Santander). In the transfer concept write your name and the word Donation.

You will get a confirmation email. Tickets follow after we verify the payment.

Let’s be direct: entry is free, but putting together a major cultural festival in Barcelona is expensive.

This is not only for our community. Durga Puja here is a cross-community, cross-country celebration of core culture — Bengali tradition shared through multicultural activities that anyone in the city can walk into. Barcelona is multicultural, and promoting multicultural activities is always welcome.

Securing the venue, covering transport and handling for authentic materials, logistics, permits, and equipment require heavy operational spending. As a non-profit association, we rely entirely on voluntary donations and chanda to cover these costs. If visitors enjoy the experience without contributing, the math simply does not work. Your donations are what keep this multicultural celebration running abroad.

Your money goes straight into operational survival in Barcelona. You can choose to support specific micro-sponsorships to see your direct impact:

• Infrastructure: Fund venue setup, lighting, and audio equipment.
• Art & Tradition: Contribute directly to ceremonial and logistical expenses.
• Community: Support the ingredients and logistics for community meals, and the multicultural activities that bring people together across communities and countries.

You can give at the designated donation desk inside the venue or register your contribution directly through our website. Give what you can, but give with intent — support the ecosystem that makes this cross-community, cross-country week of multicultural activities possible in Barcelona so it continues to thrive.

It is Bengal’s autumn homecoming: Durga as a daughter returning to her parents for five loud, well-fed days — and as the ten-armed goddess who defeats the demon Mahishasura.

In public it is core culture: art, food, music, and multicultural activities anyone can walk into. The longer story lives on the Durga Puja 2026 page.

No. It is as much core culture as ritual. In Kolkata it is built in public: pandals, lighting, food, and neighbourhood art that anyone can walk through, regardless of faith.

That is how we hold it in Barcelona too — a multicultural city where cross-community, cross-country celebration and multicultural activities are part of civic life.

UNESCO Inscribed “Durga Puja in Kolkata” in December 2021. ich.unesco.org

Ajuntament de Barcelona The Office of Religious Affairs explains Durga Puja on the city site (article from October 2024). That piece is about the festival in Barcelona; it does not list BCA’s 2026 dates or venue. ajuntament.barcelona.cat

The Durga idol (hand-built in Kumartuli, Kolkata), pandal decorations, puja ceremonies, an Indian food stall, multicultural performances, dhunuchi dance, and sindur khela on Vijaya Dashami.

• 10 Oct — Mahalaya (invocation; before the five days)
• 17 Oct — Maha Shasthi & Maha Saptami
• 18 Oct — Maha Ashtami
• 19 Oct — Sandhi Pujo & Maha Nabami
• 20 Oct — Maha Nabami
• 21 Oct — Vijaya Dashami (farewell)

Events and attractions · Full schedule

The Bengali Cultural Association Barcelona is a registered non-profit founded in 2022. We keep Bengali core culture alive in Spain through cross-community, cross-country events and multicultural activities that Barcelona welcomes. Durga Puja is our loudest week; we also mark Poila Boisakh, Rabindra Jayanti, and gatherings through the year.

Email info@bcaspain.org, or use the contact page. If you want to help, come to an event and say hello — there is no separate membership form beyond puja registration.

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