Kantajew Temple
An 18th-century terracotta Hindu temple covered with more than 15,000 sculpted plaques.
📍 Location & access
🧭 Planning your trip
The best window for Kantajew Temple is Nov – Mar. November to February is the easiest season for travel across Bangladesh generally — cool and dry — while the monsoon between June and September is when the haors, waterfalls and hills are at their most dramatic.
Dinajpur is known for kantajew Temple, Ramsagar Lake, litchi.
Prayer times in Dinajpur today
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