The Toong On Church occupies a room on the second floor of the aging Poddar Court building. It is a quiet sanctuary for the small Hakka Chinese community that remains in Kolkata. While the neighborhood bustles with commerce, this space holds a wooden altar, flickering candles, and ancestral tablets dedicated to the early migrants who arrived here to work in the tanneries and sauce factories. It keeps the traditions of a once-thriving diaspora alive in a corner of the city few outsiders visit.
Toong On Church
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