Pent Roof Style Temple

The low lying hills or the shivalik hills have shikhara doomed and flat roofed temples.

Pent roof style temple.

Sutlej valley style a blend of pent roof and pagoda style. Mrikula devi temple lahaul pic. Each geographical zone of the state has its own distinctive style of architecture. Flickr this style is the most ancient one.

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. Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah. The small solitary wooden structure in the second photograph i was told is a place where the neighbouring deities reside when they come visiting. The mid and higher hills have pent roofed and pagoda roofed temples.

These are all worshipped and the temple is a functional one with a deity inside the garbhagriha. 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. An old chandi temple showing the the timber bonded style with a pent roof and a veranda. Shakti devi temple chhitrari chamba lakshna devi temple bharmaur chamba kali devi or mrikula devi lahaul spiti.

The pent roof style. The high mountainous areas have again flat roofed temples but in a different style.