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Char-chala Rudreshwar Charchala temple at Matiari in Nadia district, West Bengal. Chala Style (Bengali: চালা শিল্পরীতি) is a style of Bengal temple architecture, that originated in Bengal from the 15th centuries. [1] Originating as a regional style in Hindu temple architecture. The main features of this style are ...
In West Bengal, the hut roof generally has four sides and the char-chala temple is built on this model. If a miniature duplicate is built on the roof, it becomes an at-chala. The char-chala temple form was well established by the 17th century. [8] Apart from the main shrines, nahabatkhana or entrance gateways also have a do-chala roof. [9]
Tarapith Temple is a 13th century Hindu temple in Tarapith, Birbhum, West Bengal in India, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Tara, one of the 10 Mahavidyas in Hinduism. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is one of the 108 Shakti Pithas in India.
The Temple is built in the At-chala style temple architecture. [1] [2] The Radha-Vinoda Temple in Bishnupur, located in the Khar Bangla area, is one of the two at-chala style temples in the region. Despite significant damage to the upper roof and entrance wall, the temple remains an important architectural and historical site. [3]
Roofing styles include the jor-bangla, do-chala, char-chala, at-chala, and ek-ratna. The do-chala type has only two hanging roof tips on each side of a roof divided in the middle by a ridge-line; in the rare char-chala type, the two roof halves are fused into one unit and have a dome-like shape; the double-storey at-chala type has eight roof ...
The temple is a great example of Jor-Bangla temple architecture, which belong to the chala style. [3] [4] The temple is the largest surviving Jor-Bangla temple. It is perhaps the most well-known terracotta temple in Bengal. [5] Currently, it is preserved as one of the archaeological monuments of India by the Archaeological Survey of India.
Bara Anhik Mandir (Big Anhik Temple) is a Hindu temple of the Puthia Temple Complex. It stands next to Chauchala Chhota Govinda Mandir on the west side of the complex and faces east. It was built by the Rajas of Puthia. It follows a mixed form of Bengal temple architecture with a central do chala flanked with two char chala structures on both ...
Char Bangla group of terracotta temples of Azimganj in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. Radh Bengal is a region in West Bengal also known as the Temple Town. This region consists of arrays of temples in varying sizes and devoted to different gods and goddess but the common thread unifying this group is that the temples are constructed in terracotta.