An old chandi temple showing the the timber bonded style with a pent roof and a veranda.
Pent roof style temple.
These are all worshipped and the temple is a functional one with a deity inside the garbhagriha.
The low lying hills or the shivalik hills have shikhara doomed and flat roofed temples.
Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah.
The mid and higher hills have pent roofed and pagoda roofed temples.
Shakti devi temple chhitrari chamba lakshna devi temple bharmaur chamba kali devi or mrikula devi lahaul spiti.
The pent roof style.
The high mountainous areas have again flat roofed temples but in a different style.
The pent roofed temples are indigenously styled circular or rectangular structures with slanting roofs made of rows and rows of slates designed in keeping with the climatic conditions of the region to keep heavy rainfall and snowfall from covering these structures for more than short intervals.
Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah like temples of himachal pradesh.
Mrikula devi temple lahaul pic.
Sutlej valley style a blend of pent roof and pagoda style.
Pent roofed temples are indigenously styled circular or rectangular structures with slanting roofs made of rows and rows of slates designed in keeping with the climatic conditions of the region.
The maheshwara temple at sungra and chagoan temple in kinnaur also belong to this style.
It is a style of mandap with one or more pagoda roofs above the garbh griha that correspond to shikhar of a classical temple usually at one end of the building but sometimes in the centre.