Kantajew Temple
Temple · Kantanagar, Rangpur
An eighteenth-century Hindu temple at Kantanagar near Dinajpur whose every outer surface is sheathed in terracotta panels — thousands of plaques depicting the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, Krishna's life and everyday Bengal of the 1700s. Begun by Maharaja Pran Nath around 1704 and completed by his son Ramnath in 1752 as a nine-spired navaratna temple, it lost all nine spires in the great earthquake of 1897 and stands today as a flat-roofed three-storey block that is still the finest terracotta building in Bangladesh. It remains a living Krishna temple, and its Rash Mela festival each November-December draws one of the largest fairs in the north of the country.
Dhepa River bank, off the Dinajpur-Tetulia Highway, Kantanagar, Rangpur, Bangladesh
Open daylight hours, roughly sunrise to sunset, every day; the shrine holds morning and evening puja. Rash Mela festival period (November-December full moon) brings extended fair hours around the compound. Formal ticketing status UNVERIFIED - entry has historically been free or nominal.