Cooch Behar Palace

Cooch Behar Palace
Cooch Behar Palace
An ASI Listed Monument
	Façade of the Cooch Behar Palace
	Façade of the Cooch Behar Palace
General information
Architectural style	Classical Western / Italian Renaissance
Location	Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India
Coordinates	26°19′37.28″N 89°26′11.23″E / 26.3270222°N 89.4364528°ECoordinates: 26°19′37.28″N 89°26′11.23″E / 26.3270222°N 89.4364528°E
Construction started	1887
Client	Maharaja Nripendra Narayan

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Cooch Behar Palace, is a landmark in Cooch Behar city, West Bengal. It was designed after the Italian Renaissance style of architecture and was built in 1887, during the reign of Maharaja Nripendra Narayan of Koch dynasty. It is currently a museum.^[1]

History[edit]

Template:Bengal Zamindars series The Cooch Behar Palace is noted for its elegance and grandeur. It is a brick-built double-story structure in the Classical Italian style covering an area of 51,309 square feet (4,766.8 m²). The whole structure is 395 feet (120 m) long and 296 feet (90 m) wide and is on rests 4 feet 9 inches (1.45 m) above the ground. The Palace is fronted on the ground and first floors by a series of arcaded verandahs with their piers arranged alternately in single and double rows.

At the southern and northern ends, the Palace projects slightly and in the center is a projected porch providing an entrance to the Durbar Hall. The Hall has an elegantly shaped metal dome which is topped by a cylindrical louver type ventilator. This is 124 feet (38 m) high from the ground and is in the style of the Renaissance architecture. The intros of the dome is carved in stepped patterns and Corinthian columns support the base of the cupola. This adds variegated colors and designs to the entire surface. There are various halls in the palace and rooms that include the grand Durbar Hall or the hall of audience, Drawing Rooms, Dining Hall, Billiard Room, Library, Bed Rooms, Toshakhana, Ladies Gallery and Vestibules. The articles and precious objects that these rooms and halls used to contain are now lost.

The original palace was partially a 3 storeyed structure, but was subsequently destroyed by the 1897 Assam earthquake.

The palace shows the acceptance of European idealism of the Koch kings.^[2]

According to the List of Monuments of National Importance in West Bengal the Cooch Behar Palace is an ASI listed monument.^[3]