Kripamayee Kali Temple ( bn, কৃপাময়ী কালী মন্দির ''Kripamôyee Kali Môndir''), commonly known as Joy Mitra Kalibari ( bn, জয় মিত্র কালীবাড়ি, ''Jôy Mitrô Kalibari'' ), is a

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temple dedicated to goddess

Kali Kali (; sa, काली, ), also referred to as Mahakali, Bhadrakali, and Kalika ( sa, कालिका), is a Hindu goddess who is considered to be the goddess of ultimate power, time, destruction and change in Shaktism. In this tra ...

, located on the eastern banks of Hooghly river at

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(in Greater Kolkata) in North 24 Parganas district, in the

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n state of

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History

The temple was built in 1848 by Jai Narayan Mitra, a famous

zamindar A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as ...

and a devotee of Kali. Mitra bought 3 bighas plot from one Mr. James and founded the temple. The presiding deity of the temple is ''Kripamayee'' ("She who is merciful"), a form of

. It is a colossal ''nabaratna'' (nine-spired) temple with twelve shrines dedicated to

Shiva Shiva (; sa, शिव, lit=The Auspicious One, Śiva ), also known as Mahadeva (; ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐ, or Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hindu ...

, Kali's consort.

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