Tarakeshwar is a village and renowned pilgrimage centre, established in Hooghly locality in the state of West Bengal. The town of Hooghly is established 58 kilometres away from Kolkata. Every year a number of devotees arrive here to take the blessings of lord Shiva and other deities. The location is acknowledged as a pilgrimage of Shiva and most of the temples over here are dedicated to Lord Shiva.
The well known Taraknath Temple in this village is one of the most travelled to temples in the village. The temple is dedicated to one of the kinds of Lord Shiva, ‘Taraknath’. The temple is accepted to be constructed in 1729 AD by Raja Bharamalla.
There is a very well known legend about the source of the lingam in the temple. A person called Vishnu Das and his male sibling came to Tarakeshwar from Ayodhya. Vishnu’s male sibling unearthed a Shivalingam in the plantation after his male sibling verified his innocence by keeping a red warm iron to the local persons of the town, when they were suspected for a awful deed. He later disclosed that he had a illusion of Lord Shiva instructing him to assemble a temple at that position.
The Tarakeshwar temple is a foremost Shivaite Pilgrim Centre, which arrives under the twelve Jyotirlinga temples, and is dedicated to lord Shiva. The premise of the temple proprietor shrines of Kali and Lakshmi-Narayan. The temple is most travelled to all through the month of Shravan, which falls in the month of July or August.
Maha Shivratri is an significant festivity commemorated in this village all through the month of February-March. It is commemorated at the time of Lord Shiva’s anniversary. throughout the commemoration, fairs and buying carnivals become a foremost affinity of this town. Other festivals that appeal visitors to reach here is Bengali New Year or the Chaitra Sankranti carnival.
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