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Kantanagar, Rangpur (Dinajpur) · 25.7959°, 88.6683°
The finest terracotta temple of Bangladesh: every inch of its brick skin — some 15,000 plaques — narrates the epics, the Krishna lila, and the courtly life of 18th-century Bengal, from river barges to Portuguese muskets. Originally nine-spired, it lost its ratnas in the great 1897 earthquake yet remains the masterpiece of late Bengal temple art.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Its panels are read like a scroll by village storytellers at the Ras Mela — the annual fair when the deity travels by palanquin to Dinajpur town, a procession running unbroken since the Raj family's vow three centuries ago.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-26 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Dinajpur Raj
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