Thetha Gohain Than (Assamese: থেঠা গোসাঁইৰ থান) in Dokoha,

Nalbari district Nalbari (Pron: nɔ:lˈbɑ:ri) is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters is located at Nalbari. History Nalbari was declared a sub division of undivided Kamrup District in 1967. The district was cr ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

is a 19th-century

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and is dedicated to

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. The temple was established at the end of the 19th century, on a piece of land donated by the late Janmi Majumdar who was an inhabitant of Kamarkuchi of

. ''Thetha Gohain'' (Assamese: থেঠা গোসাঁই) means ''child Krishna''. Land development and plantation plan have been registered under

NREGA Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MNREGA, earlier known as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'. This a ...

for further development of this temple.

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