Jatar Deul, Sunderban
About Jatar Deul
History
On the client, and thus also on the emergence time of the temple, nothing is known. Some of the researchers – due to a in the vicinity of the discovered copper plate with an inscription from the 10th century. Century, not, however, refers to the temple, or a simultaneous emergence of time adopted; others date it much later, and put the construction into the 17th. or 18. Century.The Archaeolgical Department board at the temple site places establishment around 11th century.
Architecture
The only one about 30 m high tower (rekha-deul) with an internal approximately 3.10 m × 3.10 m mass, increased lying, but windowless cella existing brick temple stands on a square base of about 9,30 × 9,30 m. Noteworthy are the rekha-deul usual steep proportions, the several cornices on the high ogival portal and vertical gradations in the upper part somewhat alleviated by be. A dome-shaped curvature of the construction developed only in the last meters.According to the List of Monuments of National Importance in West Bengal Jatar Deul is a monument of national importance.