Mother's House is located at AJC Bose Road in Kolkata, in
Indian state of West Bengal. This was the home of Nobel Laureate and Saint - Mother
Teresa - from 1953. After her death in 1997, she was buried on the ground floor
of this building. Since then, this place is a pilgrimage place. Mother’s Tomb is visited by thousands of people, on
yearly basis.
Mother's house consists of Tomb, a museum and Mothers living
room. The first room of the building contains Mother's tomb. Mother Teresa was
buried at this place on 13th September 1997. This room is a zone of absolute
silence. Many people come and pray here. It is said the uncountable numbers of prayers
gets answered from this place. Many people got benefit of prayers offered here.
The second room is, the museum. It contains articles used by Mother during her
lifetime. The utensils, clothes, pens, writing pad etc used by Mother, can be
seen here. You can even find the medical kit use for her. You can even see The
Bharat Ratna Award - which is the highest civilian award in India. Interestingly, you can also find Nobel Prize
awarded to her. In the museum, many newspaper articles are also well kept.
The
third room is Mother’s living room. This is situated on the mezzanine floor of
the building. It is a small and simple room. It has one bed, one table, one
chair and a ceiling fan. Notably this room does not have air condition. One more
interesting thing to note is, this room is situated above kitchen. At times
during summer, the room used get terribly hot but Mother never complained about
that. Mother left for her heavenly Abode on 5th September 1997 from this room.
Mother's house is well connected by a network of buses to
the rest part of the city. Traditional yellow taxis can be taken to reach this
place as well. App Cabs like Ola and Uber too offers excellent connectivity.
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