Kiriteswari Temple

Kiriteswari Temple is located in Kiritkona village under the Nabagram in Murshidabad district in the nation of West Bengal. This is one of the Sati peeth among the fifty one peeths. According to the Puranas or Hindu mythology the place were named as Kiriteswari. Peeth devi call is devi Vimala and Bhairab is Samvarta. The construction of the temple is extra than a thousand years vintage and this location changed into considered to be the slumbering location of Mahamaya. Local human beings name this temple as Mahishamardini.

Devi is likewise worshipped as Mukuteshwari the Holy Goddess. The authentic Temple turned into destroyed in 1405. The gift temple was re-constructed by using Darpanarayan, king of Lalgola inside the nineteenth century and that is the oldest mark of structure amongst fifty one Peethas. It is the oldest temple within the Murshidabad district. There is a myth that Nawab Mir Jafar in his death bed had requested for the holy Charanamrito of Maa Kiriteswari at the same time as affected by leprosy.