Pent Roof Style Temple

Each geographical zone of the state has its own distinctive style of architecture.

Pent roof style temple.

Sutlej valley style a blend of pent roof and pagoda style. Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah. The pent roof style. Mrikula devi temple lahaul pic.

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 like temples of himachal pradesh. 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. The mid and higher hills have pent roofed and pagoda roofed temples.

The 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 to keep heavy rainfall and snowfall from covering these structures for more than short intervals. The low lying hills or the shivalik hills have shikhara doomed and flat roofed temples. The high mountainous areas have again flat roofed temples but in a different style. These are all worshipped and the temple is a functional one with a deity inside the garbhagriha.

The maheshwara temple at sungra and chagoan temple in kinnaur also belong to this style. Flickr this style is the most ancient one.