Gour
A sultanate capital gone back to fields and brick.
- Where
- Malda, West Bengal, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 24.9835, 88.1388
Get the Gour stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Gour. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your West Bengal volume with your photos and a note.
Near Gour
Adina Mosque 19 km
Once the largest mosque in the subcontinent, built for the Bengal Sultanate at Pandua, with its builder buried inside it.
Farakka Barrage 29 km
A barrage across the Ganga in Murshidabad, built through the 1960s, eighteen kilometres short of the Bangladesh border.
Maluti Temples 68 km
Seventy two terracotta temples left of an original one hundred and eight, in a village of a few hundred people.
Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary 73 km
Kulik, near Raiganj, where a hundred and sixty four kinds of bird have been counted.
Hazarduari Palace 90 km
A thousand doors, nine hundred of them false.
Katra Masjid 90 km
Murshid Quli Khan is buried under the steps.
Motijhil 93 km
A horseshoe shaped lake at Murshidabad, long known as the Company's lake.
Vikramaśīla University 94 km
The ruins of a Buddhist university founded by Dharmapala, ranked in its own day alongside Nalanda.
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Questions
Where is Gour?
Gour is in Malda, West Bengal. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Adina Mosque (19 km), Farakka Barrage (29 km), Maluti Temples (68 km).
How do I get the Gour stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Gour and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your West Bengal volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Gour before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your West Bengal volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
Collect your first stamp.
LOQAH is free on iPhone and Android, in India and 20 more countries, with more countries on the way. Stand at a place, collect its stamp, and keep every trip in a passport that grows.