Jor Bangla Temple, Bishnupur

The Jor Bangla Temple, also called the Keshto Ray Temple, is a Krishna temple in Bishnupur, where the god was once worshipped as Keshto Ray. Its inscribed plaque records that Raghunath Singha, the 51st king of Mallabhum, founded it in 1655. It is the largest surviving jor-bangla temple and perhaps the most famous of Bengal's terracotta temples. The Archaeological Survey of India protects it, and it has been on UNESCO's tentative World Heritage list since 1998.

The temple faces south from a stone platform about 15.6 m square and rises 10.7 m. Two do-chala structures are joined under one continuous sloping roof: the southern one serves as the mandapa and the northern one as the sanctum, with a gap of 0.75 m between their walls. A char-chala pinnacle sits on a brick platform where the two roofs meet. Three arched entrances on four columns open the south front, and the north wall repeats them as closed arches purely for symmetry.