What is Kantaji Temple?
[[Image:Kantaji Temple Dinajpur Bangladesh (12).JPG|thumb|]] '''Kantojiu Temple''' ({{lang-bn|কান্তজীউ মন্দির}}) at Kantanagar is a late-[[medieval]] [[Hindu temple]] in [[Dinajpur District]], [[Bangladesh]]. It was built by Maharaja Pran Nath; its construction started in 1702 and ended in 1752,<ref>[http://bol-online.net/newspages/travel/dinajpur.html Travel:Dinajpur] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929023839/http://bol-online.net/newspages/travel/dinajpur.html |date=2007-09-29 }}, from Bangladesh Online (ISP).</ref> during the reign of his son Maharaja Ramnath.<ref name=Banglapedia>{{cite book|url=http://www.banglapedia.org/HT/K_0076.HTM|author=Nazimuddin Ahmed|chapter=Kantanagar Temple|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh|access-date=2013-02-01|archive-date=2009-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203162240/http://banglapedia.org/HT/K_0076.HTM|url-status=dead}}</ref> It has one of the best examples of [[terracotta]] [[architecture]] in Bangladesh. It once had nine spires, but they were all destroyed in an earthquake in 1897.<ref>[http://www.journeyplus.com/bangladesh.html Journey plus - Dinajpur] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090823041638/http://www.journeyplus.com/bangladesh.html |date=2009-08-23 }}.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{asia-stub}} [[Category:Hindu temples in Bangladesh]] [[Category:1752 establishments]] [[Category:18th-century establishments in Bangladesh]]