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The “Maa Tara Pith” Temple

Temple for the worship Of The Divine Mother around the world

The Temple is open to visitors and worshippers everyday of every season from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm.

A Divine Seat Of The Divine Mother

The Sacred Seat

The “Maa Tara Pith” Temple is dedicated to the worship Of Maa Tara, A Great Cosmic Wisdom Form Of Maa Maha Kaali. According to legends, The “Maa Tara Pith” Temple is where Maa Sati’s Eyeball Had Fallen. As the bengali word for eyeball is tara, the temple was dedicated to the worship Of Maa Tara. Thus devotees venerate The “Maa Tara Pith” Temple As A Shakti Pith, A Divine Seat Of The Divine Mother Maa Aadi ParaShakti. Shakti Piths Are Revered As The Holy Sites on earth Where The Various Parts Of Maa Sati’s Holy Body are said to Have Fallen during lord shiva’s rudra tandava.

Read The Temple

The vermilion wall and carved relief Of The Temple — The carved wall Of The Temple, “TaraPith”

By your own hand

Offer The Puja

Offer gandham, the blue utpala, dhūpam, and naivedyam by your own hand.

Enter The Puja

What stands at “TaraPith”

The Marks Of This Place

The At-Chala

Its form is the at-chala, the eight roof slopes: a four sloped roof, and above it, resting on a short raised tier, a second and smaller four sloped roof.

The Temple

The Divine Vigrahas

Inside the Sanctum, There Are Two Divine Vigrahas Of Maa Tara. Only after the evening aarti ceremony do the devotees have the opportunity to catch a glimpse Of The Original Stone Divine Vigraha.

The Temple

The Great Cremation Ground

The tradition holds that the cremation ground is where The Divine Mother Maa Tara Abides, and sadhakas have come to it for generations for that reason.

The Maha Shmashan

The “Maa Tara Pith” Temple lit through the night

The Great Night Of Maa Tara

“Kaushiki Amavasya”

September 10, 2026

Each year, on this night, lakhs of devotees walk to the “TaraPith” Temple, and its lamps burn until dawn.

The tradition keeps this amavasya as the night when the worship Of Maa Tara bears its deepest fruit.

Enter The Night

One unbroken order

The Day At The Temple

The day at The Temple keeps one unbroken order, and it has kept that order for generations.

Before dawn
The Divine Mother is woken with music, the shehnai sounding at the door of the Sanctum.
The bathing
The Stone Divine Vigraha is then anointed with ghee, with honey and with fragrant oil, and bathed in the water drawn from the jivit kunda, the pond beside The Temple.
Midday
At midday the offering of rice is made.
Afternoon
Through the afternoon The Temple is closed while the offering is served and the Sanctum is set in order.
Evening
In the evening the sandhya arati is offered, and afterwards the bed of The Divine Mother is prepared for the night.

The whole order of the day

“TaraPith”, birbhum, west bengal

The Temple, In Photographs

Photograph: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA

The journey

Coming To The Temple

By train

The nearest railway station is rampurhat junction, some seven to nine kilometres from The Temple, and cars and autos run from the station forecourt.

By road

By road “TaraPith” lies some five to six hours from kolkata, the route running north by the national highway and then east into birbhum.

By air

Two airports serve the journey. The nearer is the kazi nazrul islam airport at andal, near durgapur, roughly a hundred to a hundred and twenty kilometres away by road.

Visitors have to be careful about not taking photos as photography at The Temple is not allowed.

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