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Rani Rashmoni spent eight years building this Kali temple, where the mystic Ramakrishna served as head priest.
A sprawling riverside Kali temple complex built by Rani Rashmoni over eight years, famous as the spiritual home of the 19th-century mystic Sri Ramakrishna, who served here as head priest.
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Its main temple was deliberately designed to blend Hindu, Christian and Islamic motifs in a single structure.
Modelled on Akbar's tomb at Sikandra, built by a wealthy Kutchi Memon trader, with a prayer hall for over 10,000 worshippers.
Earthquakes damaged it in 1897 and again in 1934, and after the second, its tower and spire were rebuilt in a slightly different design.