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Madangopal Jiu Temple
Mellak, near Deulti, Howrah district, West Bengal · 22.4656°, 87.9033°
Radha and Madangopala, a form of KrishnaUndeterminedAth-chala (eight-roofed) Bengal temple
Sacred since
1651 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1651
Undetermined
History & significance
A seventeenth-century Krishna temple in the Howrah countryside, described as one of the largest ath-chala temples in West Bengal for its distinctive eight-sloped roof.