Pirs and Temples


 
 
Concept Explanation
 

Pirs and Temples

Pirs and Temples:With the establishment of Mughals control over Bengal with their capital in the heart of the eastern delta at Dhaka, officials and functionaries received land and often set up mosques that served as centre for religious transformation in these areas. The early settlers sought some order and assurance in the unstable conditions of the new settlements.

These were provided by community leaders, who also functioned as teachers and Adjudicators and were sometimes ascribed with supernatural powers. People referred to them with affection and respect as Pirs. This term included saints or Sufis and other religious personalities, daring colonizers and deified soldiers, various Hindu and Buddhist deities and even animistic spirits. The cult of Pirs became very popular and their shrines can be found everywhere in Bengal.

The Architecture of the temple In Bengal

The temples began to copy the double roofed (dochala) or four roofed ( Chauchala) structure of the thatched huts. In four roofed structure , four triangle roofs were placed on four walls converging on a point.Temples were built on square platform.The interior was plain .outer walls had paintings, ornamental tiles or terracotta tablets , for example ,Vishnupur in Bankura district.

 
 


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