Lalji Temple, Located in Bishnupur in Indian state of West Bengal.

According to the inscriptional plaque found in the temple, the temple was founded in 1658 by Bir Singha Dev King of Mallabhum. The Temple is built in the Ek-ratna style temple architecture.

Among the stone-built eka-ratna temple, the Lalji temple has a very impressive appearance. This temple is enclosed by a covered ambulatory and a few ornamental details are visible on the sides of the three arched openings.the pleasure of “Sri Radhika and Sri Krishna”. Placed upon a large plinth, the temple is a structure of square shape having a roof slightly sloping on all the four sides, upon which stands the single tower. It is square on plan each side measuring 12.3 m and 12.3 m in height. The temple had ornamental decorations upon its front wall originally, but now only traces of those ornamentations can be seen on the upper part of the arched openings.

Currently, it is preserved as one of the archaeological monuments by the Archaeological Survey of India. Since 1998, the Lalji Temple is on the UNESCO World Heritage Site's Tentative list.

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• Biswas, S. S. (1992). Bishnupur (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ed.). Director General, Archaeological Survey of India.

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