Pent Roof Style Temple

The low lying hills or the shivalik hills have shikhara doomed and flat roofed temples.

Pent roof style temple.

Shakti devi temple chhitrari chamba lakshna devi temple bharmaur chamba kali devi or mrikula devi lahaul spiti. Sutlej valley style a blend of pent roof and pagoda style. Each geographical zone of the state has its own distinctive style of architecture. 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 maheshwara temple at sungra and chagoan temple in kinnaur also belong to this style. These are all worshipped and the temple is a functional one with a deity inside the garbhagriha. The mid and higher hills have pent roofed and pagoda roofed temples. An old chandi temple showing the the timber bonded style with a pent roof and a veranda.

Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah. Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah like temples of himachal pradesh. 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. 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.

Mrikula devi temple lahaul pic. Flickr this style is the most ancient one.