Hanseswari Temple

West Bengal


About 6km north of Bandel, Bansberia is home to the imposing Hanseswari Temple, devoted to an avatar of the goddess Kali. With 13 pinnacled sikharas (Hindu temple-spires) it looks like something you’d expect to see in Moscow. Within the temple premises is the small but elegant terracotta-tiled Vasudev Temple, which resembles the famous terracotta temples of Bishnupur.