Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah.
Pent roof style temple.
Timber bonded style with pent roof and optional verandah like temples of himachal pradesh.
The maheshwara temple at sungra and chagoan temple in kinnaur also belong to this style.
An old chandi temple showing the the timber bonded style with a pent roof and a veranda.
Sutlej valley style a blend of pent roof and pagoda style.
Shakti devi temple chhitrari chamba lakshna devi temple bharmaur chamba kali devi or mrikula devi lahaul spiti.
These are all worshipped and the temple is a functional one with a deity inside the garbhagriha.
Each geographical zone of the state has its own distinctive style of architecture.
The low lying hills or the shivalik hills have shikhara doomed and flat roofed temples.
The high mountainous areas have again flat roofed temples but in a different style.
The mid and higher hills have pent roofed and pagoda roofed temples.
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.
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.
The pent roof style.
Mrikula devi temple lahaul pic.