Sunday, September 14, 2014

Bangladesh - Kantajee's Temple Dinajpur

Kantajee's Temple Dinajpur
2014

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Kantaji Temple at Kantanagar, is a late-medieval Hindu temple in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Built by Maharaja Pran Nath, its construction started in 1704 and ended in the reign of his son Raja Ramnath 1722. It boasts one of the greatest examples on Terracotta architecture in Bangladesh and once had nine spires, but all were destroyed in an earthquake that took place in 1897.

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