Seventeen Ranta Temple

       

District  :   Cumilla
Upazila  :   Cumilla Sadar

The temple is dedicated to Jagannath. For this reason, the temple is also known as Jagannath Temple or Sat Ratna Jagannath Temple. This temple can be seen at Jagannathpur in Comilla sadar upazila. There are several ancient temples that can be seen around this temple. But this seventeen Ratna temple is still in sight. The temple is of Three-storied. Usually, this type of architecture was not seen in ancient times. The temple is octagonal in land plan. The main chamber of the temple is also made of octagonally. There are more rooms around this main chamber. It is said to have seventeen Ratna temples, because there are 17 peaks in this temple. Among these 17 peaks, there are 8 peaks in the eight corners on first floor , 8 in the eight corners on the second floor and 1 on the top of the temple. On the wall of the temple, gods, animal figures, instead of mythological stories, flowers, fruits, sapling, spiked rope design, lotus petals etc. can be seen. This type of ornament is different from that of the medieval and ancient temples built in Bengal. It is known that second Maharaja (king) of Tripura started the work of the Ratna Manikya Jagannath (1685 - 1712 AD). Later, in 1761 Maharaja Krishna Kishore Manikya completed the construction of this temple.

        

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