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Kantajew Temple

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459: 378: 369: 345:(nine-spired) style before the destruction caused by the earthquake of 1897. The characteristic features of the erections are the four centered and wide multi-cusped arches, the plastered surface of the walls having immense rectangular and square panelings, prominence of the central archway and the central mihirab by making the slightly larger and setting in a projected fronton in the outside directions, the use of ornamental turrets on the either side of the fronton, the semi-octagonal mirirab apertures, the archway opening under half-domes, the Persian muquarnas work in stucco inside the half-domes over the entrance arches and mihirab niches, the bulbous outline of the domes with constructed necks, domes on octagonal drums with lotus and kalasa finials as the crowning elements, the round pendentives to make up the phase of transition for the domes and the multi-faced corner towers rising high above the horizontal merloned parapets. 435: 447: 700: 423: 402: 29: 414: 127: 357: 471: 390: 225: 289: 134: 458: 377: 368: 271:. This temple is dedicated to Krishna and his wife Rukmini. Built by Maharaja Pran Nath, its construction started in 1704 CE and ended in the reign of his son Raja Ramnath in 1722 CE. It is an example of 906: 901: 661: 434: 157: 263:. The Kantajew Temple is a religious edifice belonging to the 18th century. The temple belongs to the Hindu Kanta or Krishna and this is most popular with the 567:
Kantaji temple at Kantanagar in Dinajpur, the construction work of which was begun in 1704 by Raja Prannath and completed by his son Raja Ramnath in 1722 ...
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architecture in Bangladesh and once had nine spires, but all were destroyed in an earthquake that took place in 1897.
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A southern view of Kantojiu Temple in 1871 showing the nine spires that were subsequently destroyed in an earthquake
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near the Hajee Mohammed Danesh Science and Technology university far about 12 kilometre
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Temple To Love: Architecture And Devotion In Seventeenth-Century Bengal
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Archaeological sites in Dinajpur District, Bangladesh
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Religious buildings and structures completed in 1752
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Affiliation
Hinduism
Dinajpur
Deity
Krishna
Rukmini
Rangpur Division
Bangladesh
Kantajew Temple is located in Bangladesh
Geographic coordinates
25°47′26″N 88°40′00″E / 25.79056°N 88.66667°E / 25.79056; 88.66667
Raja

Bengali
Hindu temple
Dinajpur
Bangladesh
Radha-Krishna
Bengal
terracotta

verification
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navaratna
Comparison

Top view of the temple

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