Danapur
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| State : | Bihar | ||
| District : | Patna | ||
| Location : | 25 ° 38 ′ N , 85 ° 3 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 182,241 (2011) | ||
Danapur is a suburb of Patna in the Indian state of Bihar and is on the railway line to Kolkata .
During the colonial period, Danapur was a British garrison town ; there was an Indian and an English district.
At the time of the uprising of 1857 , Josephine Lorenz, matron of the English Misses from Munich , died together with another German sister in the local Catholic St. Stephen's Church . A memorial has been set up there as a reminder.