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Tarkulha Devi Temple

तरकुलहा देवी मंदिर

Tarkulha, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh · 26.6533°, 83.5383°

Tarkulha Devi, a form of DurgaUndetermined—

Sacred since

1000 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

dating unrecorded

Undetermined

History & significance

A Durga shrine in Gorakhpur district bound up with the 1857 uprising: the rebel leader Bandhu Singh took the goddess as his chosen deity and worshipped here before his raids on the British. He was hanged on 12 August 1857, and the temple keeps his memory.

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