The last Ekamra Walks of the year was a memorable day on Sunday with senior citizens, young walkers and architects making it a meaningful discussion on the temple building style and uniqueness of the city monuments, dotting mainly in and around the old city near the majestic lingaraj Temple and the holy Bindusagar lake.
While the walkers came to know about the temple building style and the building plan of the 10th Century Mukteswar Temple, which is famous for its unique arch, the participants including kids had a meaningful discussion over the types of stone used for the construction, the images of different gods and goddess and how the different forms of goddesses evolved through the passage of time. Fourth year architecture student from the College of Engineering and Technology (CET) Swayam Swastik Das said, “Our temples are the perfect example of scientific adaptation of knowledge of the Sun band prevalent in different seasons and their opening doors and side doors and the other parts were planned as per the directions of wind circulation during the two major seasons which we feel the most, ie summer and winter.’’
After visiting major monuments like Mukteswar, Parasurameswar, Swarna Jaleswar, Kotitirtheswar, Bindusagar, Ananta Vasudev, Old Dharamsala, lingaraj, Chitrakarini, Sari, Mohini and Vaitaal, they also went to the medicinal plant garden Ekamra Van with a rich collection over 200 plant varieties.