Pent Roof Style Temple

The small solitary wooden structure in the second photograph i was told is a place where the neighbouring deities reside when they come visiting.

Pent roof style temple.

Mrikula devi temple lahaul pic. 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. 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. Sutlej valley style a blend of pent roof and pagoda style. 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 pent roof style.

Each geographical zone of the state has its own distinctive style of architecture. Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah like temples of himachal pradesh. The low lying hills or the shivalik hills have shikhara doomed and flat roofed temples. Shakti devi temple chhitrari chamba lakshna devi temple bharmaur chamba kali devi or mrikula devi lahaul spiti.

Flickr this style is the most ancient one. The high mountainous areas have again flat roofed temples but in a different style.