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Early modern · Hindu · India
Kotulpur Sridhar Temple
Shiromanipur, Kotulpur, Bankura district, West Bengal · 23.0097°, 87.5885°
Vishnu worshipped as Sridhar, in the form of a shaligramBhadra zamindarsPancha-ratna terracotta (Bengal)
Sacred since
1833 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1833
Bhadra zamindars
History & significance
A five-pinnacled terracotta temple of 1833 at Shiromanipur in Kotulpur, built by the Bhadra family, traders in salt, thread and mustard who had bought zamindari rights after Sadananda Bhadra settled here in the late 17th century. Ramakrishna, staying at nearby Kamarpukur from March to October 1880, came to the Bhadra house during that time.