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Doul Govinda Temple

দৌল গোবিন্দ মন্দিৰ

Rajaduar, North Guwahati, Kamrup, Assam · 26.2068°, 91.7417°

Krishna (Govinda)Undetermined—

Sacred since

1800 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

over 150 years old; renovated 1966

Undetermined

History & significance

A Krishna temple with an attached namghar on the north bank of the Brahmaputra at Rajaduar, established more than a century and a half ago around an image brought from Sandhyasar near Nalbari by Ganga Ram Barooah, and renovated in 1966. Its five-day Holi observance draws some five thousand pilgrims.

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