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Sat Deul, Towering Brick Temple, Memari, Burdwan District, West Bengal
April 4, 2019
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Sat Deul, Towering Brick Temple
Memari, Burdwan District, West Bengal
Stone has always been in short supply in the vast flood plains of Bengal. Hence the architects had to restore to other substitute. As clay was easily available the burnt clay bricks soon became a good substitute of stone.

Sat Deul, near Memari, Burdwan District
This gave rise to a new form of temple architecture and lead to the construction of elaborately decorated terracotta temples. Terracotta literally means baked earth in Italian but West Bengal has the distinction of housing some of the finest terracotta art in the world.