02-02-2019
Katha Saghral is part of Khushab tehisl, the village is
situated 25 km from Khushab on the Rawalpindi-Peshawar Road. It is
semi-hilly and mineral area. Dozens of minerals including coal and salt are
being mined in the surrounding area of this village. The population of this
village is associated with agriculture and tomato is the famous cultivation of
the area.
Before partition of sub-continent lots of Hindu family lives
in this town.
An old, Hindu temple, standing in desolated
state inside the premises of Government school on the main road of Katha
Saghral. Nothing much knows about the year of construction of this edifice.
The temple is constructed of clay burnt bricks
that are commonly known as ” lakhori ” popular in the mughal architecture and
abundantly in Nawabi architecture of Faizabad and Lucknow .The form which is
flat , thin , of red colour . Initial Awadh architectural structures were made
of these slim elements. The best part is , it could be used and aligned in
multiple formats of arches , sculptural facades because of their small size and
thinness , they could be placed to make intricate shapes and fine details on
walls and column surfaces
The structure consists of single story square
“Sanctum” which was designed for placing the housing deity. In sanctum room
corner squinches portion filled with extended flower bouquet element made of
lime. From square sanctum structure main temple curvilinear spire (tower,
sikhara) is raised, which is common type of northern Indian Shrines (Latinas).
For construction of curvilinear spire small dimensions bricks used which are
different from ground floor of temple.
