The mandir was commissioned by Raja Nrisingha Deb in 1790. But the building stopped midway with his abrupt passing away. The construction was left abandoned for a few years. After 1810, Rani Shankari, Nrisingha Deb’s widowed queen, ordered for its completion. According to some people Nrisingha Deb was a practitioner of the Tantric cult and this is why he chose this architectural pattern, which is somewhat uncommon for a mandir. It has thirteen towers levelled at five different tiers, each tapering to a lotus dome. This style of architecture maybe compared to the cathedral architectures of Russia e.g. Pokrovsky Cathedral, Moscow.
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