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Moiramora Doul, Dibrugarh

Chutia-era temple ruins on the Burhi Dihing near Dibrugarh, with early medieval stone sculptures and a museum

Photo: Zoroqoqo · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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01 — The story

The story

Moiramora Doul, also known as Moiramora Than, is a State Protected Monument on the Burhi Dihing River, about 2 km west of Khamtighat in Mancotta Mouza, Dibrugarh district, Assam. A stone temple first stood here, dated by its style to the 9th–10th century; it was later replaced in brick, and dating of those bricks to the 13th–14th century suggests Chutia royal patronage. Only ruins of the temple remain, and the Moiramora Satra, a monastery of the Ekasarana tradition once supported by the Ahom kings, now occupies the site.

Since 2010 the Assam Archaeological Department, working with the district administration and local youth groups, has fenced about 7 bighas and added an altar and a concrete museum. The site holds 13 rock-cut idols and fragments of others, with granite sculptures from the 8th–9th centuries CE and later ones in sandstone. The museum shows brick altars from old temples, British-era copper coins, silver flowers and clay bricks of many shapes. Dibrugarh railway station is around 20 km away.

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02 — About

About Moiramora Doul, Dibrugarh

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Where it is

Dibrugarh, Assam

27.34° N 94.93° E