Pent Roof Style Temple

Shakti devi temple chhitrari chamba lakshna devi temple bharmaur chamba kali devi or mrikula devi lahaul spiti.

Pent roof style temple.

The small solitary wooden structure in the second photograph i was told is a place where the neighbouring deities reside when they come visiting. Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah. The low lying hills or the shivalik hills have shikhara doomed and flat roofed temples. The pent roof style.

Pent roofed temples are indigenously styled circular or rectangular structures with slanting roofs made of rows and rows of slates designed in keeping with the climatic conditions of the region. The mid and higher hills have pent roofed and pagoda roofed temples. Sutlej valley style a blend of pent roof and pagoda style. Each geographical zone of the state has its own distinctive style of architecture.

Flickr this style is the most ancient one. These are all worshipped and the temple is a functional one with a deity inside the garbhagriha. Mrikula devi temple lahaul pic. The maheshwara temple at sungra and chagoan temple in kinnaur also belong to this style.

It is a style of mandap with one or more pagoda roofs above the garbh griha that correspond to shikhar of a classical temple usually at one end of the building but sometimes in the centre. Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah like temples of himachal pradesh.