Kantaji Sanctuary (কান্তজীউ মন্দির):

Kantaji Sanctuary (Bengali: কান্তজীউ মন্দির) at Kantanagar, is a late-medieval Hindu sanctuary in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Assembled by Maharaja Pran Nath, its development begun in 1704 CE and finished in the rule of his child Raja Ramnath 1722 CE, amid the rule of his child Maharaja Ramnath. It gloats one of the best samples on Terracotta construction modeling in Bangladesh and once had nine towers, yet all were crushed in a quake that occurred in 1897.

Structural planning:

The sanctuary was inherent a navaratna (nine-spired) style before the devastation created by the seismic tremor of 1897. The trademark peculiarities of the erections are the four focused and wide multi-cusped curves, the put surface of the dividers having enormous rectangular and square panelings, unmistakable quality of the focal entrance and the focal mihirab by making the somewhat bigger and setting in an anticipated fronton in the outside headings, the utilization of fancy turrets on the either side of the fronons, the semi-octagonal mirirab openings, the passage opening under half-arches, the Persian muquarnas work in stucco inside the half-vaults over the door curves and mihirab niches,the bulbous framework of the vaults with built necks, vaults on octagonal drums with lotus and kalasa finials as the delegated components, the round pendentives to make up the period of move for the arches and the multi-confronted corner towers climbing high over the even merloned parapets. 

 Instructions to go:

The sanctuary is around a 1 mile west of Dinajpur-Thakurgaon Expressway over the Dhepa Stream. Different sorts suburbanites like Transport, Engine byke and Rickshaw Van can get you there inside hours from the Town. You need to get off the transport at the Spot called 'Kantanagar', on the off chance that you decide to walk and appreciate the nation air. However the separation will be some more extensive, on the off chance that you are to get there through Auto/vehicle up to the sanctuary, may be your family is with you, all things considered, you have to travel some more further to the south from the Kantanagar point, and need a U-turn after simply