Chinese Kali Temple, Tangra, Kolkata What's unusual: Noodles are given as Prasad
This unusual Kali temple is situated in Tangra's Chinatown in Kolkata. On the day of Kali Puja, this temple is filled with ethnic Chinese local residents of Tangra. According to the residents, the temple is about 60 years old, started with just a couple of sindoor-smeared black stones under an old tree. Later on the local people started worshipping these stones, eventually followed up by the Chinese. The interesting part is that most of the Chinese here are either Buddhists or Christians, but also are great fans of the Kali temple. What makes more interesting is that the prasad offered here are noodles, chopsuey, rice and vegetable dishes.
1: There is another temple which is not listed here.... It is Til Bhandeswar temple...in Varanasi city. It's unusual thing is it is said that the linga of lord shiva in this temple is increasing every year by one til.it's radius is now a huge big than many a years later and it is also established by lord bishnu.
4: Interesting article. Just wanted to add a temple that is overlooked most of the times. Its a very rare temple due to the unique placements of the shrines. Its the Kasivisvesvaran temple located in the Lakkundi village, Karnataka. The uniqueness of the temple is that the shrines of God Shiva and Sun God are facing each other. In addition to that, the Sun God is facing west instead of facing east. This is the only temple where the Sun god faces the west.
5: How can you miss out on Hanumanji temple in Allahabad, this temple is the only temple in the world were Hanumanji is in sleeping avtar..which depicts that Hanumanji found the place so relaxing and comfortable that he slept here.
6: Yeah it is in the Mahatirtha Prayag...it's name is palti hanuman. But your last part information was wrong, the actual cause is said that while returning having sanjeevani buti with the parbat for lord laxman he fell down in that place only. Thank you.
Arpan Singh replied to: Achint post - 17 Jun, 2016
In aforesaid article/news it is written that KAL BHAIRAV Temple is located in Ujjain (Uttar-Pradesh). Request you to please correct it as the temple is situated in holy city VARANASI (Uttar-Pradesh). Hope you will rectify this.