Jagannath Temple

Jagannath Dev Mandir is one of the historical temples in Comilla district. King of Tripura built it. It turned into named ‘Moharaja Radha Kishor Manikuo Bahadur’ at some point of the 16th century. The gods Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra were worshiped right here. Initially, the statue of gods had been at Tripura temple but later it became been shifted right here. This is referred as Saptratna Mandir, where as the tour book creator Mustafiz Mamun has added this as Sotero Rotno Mandir. There might be a country of confusion concerning the name, however this temple is unique considering the alternative temples from Bangladesh.

The deities of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra have been firstly set up in a temple in Tripura from in which they were finally shifted to this temple. The terracotta brick work of the temple is in the standard Bengal fashion of temple structure. Jagannath Temple is one of the oldest temples of Comilla district. This four storied, conical formed temple is a brick constructed shape, constructed on a concrete octagonal base-stone. This is the only octagonal based and shaped temple of Bangladesh, and considered one of its kind.

External wall of each floor looks like octagons and were ascended like inverted Cone. It is a single spire Temple. There is a rumor about this normal searching spiritual place. Some believes there are more flooring underground, which is filled by sedimentation from Gumti River over time. That Tank might be as antique because the temple. The tank is likewise sketched in 1863 drawing a British Library Collecton.