Silicon Valley Sarbojonin Durgotsav 2026 at Newark Junior High

Silicon Valley Sarbojonin Durgotsav is Saturday and Sunday, October 24–25, 2026, at Newark Junior High School, 6201 Lafayette Avenue. The homepage on siliconvalleysarbojonin.org is the lock. This is the group’s 10th year. Hours are not posted. A ticket price is not on that page.

The org calls it a sarbojonin puja, a public community puja rather than a household one. The copy asks people to show up as the workforce, not only as guests. That is the texture that separates this page from a first-year ICC rental or a fairgrounds membership machine. Phone is (650) 430-5684. Email is svdurgapuja@gmail.com. Aggregators have written free entry and free parking. Wait for the homepage or an email from the org before you promise a free door.

This is a junior-high campus in Newark, between Fremont and the Dumbarton edge of the South Bay. Parking is a school lot. Lafayette Avenue is a surface street. The 880 to Thornton or Mowry is the usual hop from Fremont. Expect gym-and-multipurpose-room geography, not a decorated fairgrounds aisle. Bring shoes you can stand in on linoleum and asphalt both.

Newark itself is easy to underestimate on a Bay Area culture map. It sits west of Fremont’s Washington High corridor and east of the bay edge, which is why this puja often feels like a neighborhood pull rather than a regional destination. If your friends already know the Lafayette Avenue pin, you are in the right circle. If you are discovering it from a search result, budget time to park and walk the campus once before you commit to anjali timing.

Silicon Valley Sarbojonin is a Bay Area Bengali nonprofit focused on heritage, charity, and this annual puja. The about copy frames philanthropic, religious, literary, and educational work with an emphasis on Bengal. It is not ICC and not FOG. The partners row on the site is local sponsors, not a national festival brand.

Prabasi and Agomoni are already over by then, October 16–18. This is the late South Bay puja weekend, closer to Kali Puja than to ashtami for some calendars. Confirm the ritual days on the site if you are timing anjali or a specific day of the idol.

The same Saturday, FOG Diwali Mela is 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Washington High School in Fremont, a few miles east. AIA’s San Jose Diwali Carnival is 2:00 to 11:00 p.m. at Cesar Chavez Park. Three different products: a Newark puja, a FOG school-grounds mela, a downtown Ravan night. Pick one Saturday. Sunday is the quieter Newark day if you want this puja without the Fremont crush.

Our take: put Newark on the calendar if this is already your 10th-year circle. Confirm hours and the door the week of. If you want a posted 10-to-7 clock that Saturday, Fremont is clearer. If you want fireworks and a downtown park, San Jose is the late option.

When: October 24–25, 2026 (hours not posted)
Where: Newark Junior High School, 6201 Lafayette Ave, Newark, CA 94560