Rajnagar Kali Mandir

Rajnagar Kali Mandir is a Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Kali in the Mithila region of Bihar. It is located at the campus of the Rajnagar Palace in the Madhubani district of Bihar in India. It is made by white marble and elephant ivory. It is one of the major tourist destinations in the Mithila region of Bihar.

History

The Rajnagar Kali Mandir was built during the period of Maharajadhiraja Rameshwar Singh in Mithila. It is said that Maharajadhiraja Rameshwar Singh was a great devotee of the Goddess Kali.
Goddess Kali was the Kuldevi of the Darbhanga Maharaja in Mithila. It is said that wherever the Darbhanga Maharaja had a palace, a grand temple of the Kuldevi Kali was also built there.

The Rajnagar Kali Mandir is also called as Tajmahal of the Mithila region. According to the history of the Rajnagar Palace, the King Rameshwar Singh had ordered 6 statues of Goddess Kali made in Ajmer. The cost of those statues was twenty eight thousands Indian rupees. Since the temple was built using white marble, so it is compared with the Tajmahal of Agra. It is an important tourist destination of the tourism in Mithila.