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Most temples surviving in reasonable condition date from about the 17th century onwards, after temple building revived; it had stopped after the Muslim conquest in the 13th century.<ref name="Michell, 156">Michell, 156</ref> The roofing style of Bengali [[Hindu temple architecture]] is unique and closely related to the paddy roofed traditional building style of rural Bengal.<ref>3.http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/wb/wbtemps.htm</ref> The "extensive improvisation within a local architectural idiom"<ref name="Michell, 156"/> which the temples exhibit is often ascribed to a local shortage of expert [[Brahmin]] priests to provide the rather rigid guidance as to correct forms that governed temple architecture elsewhere. In the same way the terracotta reliefs often depict secular subjects in a very lively fashion. | Most temples surviving in reasonable condition date from about the 17th century onwards, after temple building revived; it had stopped after the Muslim conquest in the 13th century.<ref name="Michell, 156">Michell, 156</ref> The roofing style of Bengali [[Hindu temple architecture]] is unique and closely related to the paddy roofed traditional building style of rural Bengal.<ref>3.http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/wb/wbtemps.htm</ref> The "extensive improvisation within a local architectural idiom"<ref name="Michell, 156"/> which the temples exhibit is often ascribed to a local shortage of expert [[Brahmin]] priests to provide the rather rigid guidance as to correct forms that governed temple architecture elsewhere. In the same way the terracotta reliefs often depict secular subjects in a very lively fashion. | ||
Roofing styles include the ''jor-bangla'', ''do-chala'', ''char-chala'', ''at-chala'', and ''ek-ratna''. The ''do-chala'' type has only two hanging roof tips on each side of a roof divided in the middle by a ridge-line; in the rare ''char-chala'' type, the two roof halves are fused into one unit and have a dome-like shape; the double-storey ''at-chala'' type has eight roof corners.<ref name="banglapedia">{{cite web | Roofing styles include the ''jor-bangla'', ''do-chala'', ''char-chala'', ''at-chala'', and ''ek-ratna''. The ''do-chala'' type has only two hanging roof tips on each side of a roof divided in the middle by a ridge-line; in the rare ''char-chala'' type, the two roof halves are fused into one unit and have a dome-like shape; the double-storey ''at-chala'' type has eight roof corners.<ref name="Amit"/><ref name="banglapedia">{{cite web | ||
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Many of these temples are covered on the outer walls with [[terracotta]] (carved brick) [[relief]]s. [[Bishnupur, Bankura|Bishnupur]] in [[West Bengal]] has a remarkable set of 17th and 18th-century temples with a variety of roof styles built by the [[Mallabhum|Malla dynasty]]. | Many of these temples are covered on the outer walls with [[terracotta]] (carved brick) [[relief]]s. [[Bishnupur, Bankura|Bishnupur]] in [[West Bengal]] has a remarkable set of 17th and 18th-century temples with a variety of roof styles built by the [[Mallabhum|Malla dynasty]]. | ||