Pent Roof Style Temple

The high mountainous areas have again flat roofed temples but in a different style.

Pent roof style temple.

Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah like temples of himachal pradesh. Each geographical zone of the state has its own distinctive style of architecture. The pent roofed temples are indigenously styled circular or rectangular structures with slanting roofs made of rows and rows of slates designed in keeping with the climatic conditions of the region to keep heavy rainfall and snowfall from covering these structures for more than short intervals. Shakti devi temple chhitrari chamba lakshna devi temple bharmaur chamba kali devi or mrikula devi lahaul spiti.

Mrikula devi temple lahaul pic. The mid and higher hills have pent roofed and pagoda roofed temples. Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah. Sutlej valley style a blend of pent roof and pagoda style.

The low lying hills or the shivalik hills have shikhara doomed and flat roofed temples. It is a style of mandap with one or more pagoda roofs above the garbh griha that correspond to shikhar of a classical temple usually at one end of the building but sometimes in the centre. The small solitary wooden structure in the second photograph i was told is a place where the neighbouring deities reside when they come visiting. The pent roof style.

Pent roofed temples are indigenously styled circular or rectangular structures with slanting roofs made of rows and rows of slates designed in keeping with the climatic conditions of the region. These are all worshipped and the temple is a functional one with a deity inside the garbhagriha.