Baba Taraknath Temple Tarakeswar - Hindu temple in Tarkeshwar, Bhanjipur - Hooghly, India

The famous temple of Lord Shiva is worshiped as Baba Tarakanath hence the name of the temple is Tarakeswar temple and also the name of the place is Tarakeswar. Shravan month in Bengal is father's birth month. So most devotees come here for puja. Walking distance from Tarkeswar railway station. Pilgrims take a holy dip in the famous milk pond before the offered puja. Everyone should avoid worshipers called pandas. They will demand unnecessary money for offering pooja and darshan where no payment is required for darshan. The temple floor is always slippery due to water and mud so one has to walk carefully.

Nice place for pilgrim, but try to avoid Panda, just take any necessary ingredients such as green coconut with milk and any other fruit to dedicate to Mohadev. You can go directly to to temple from rail station by walking.

Good place for hindu devotees. Little bit congested area. Wheelchair are not accessible. Lack of proper line maintenance can be observed here. Darsen is closed from 9.00AM to 11.00 AM in the morning. Too much gathering observed in holiday, specially in Chaitra, baisakh and shravan months.

Baba Taraknath Temple is considered among one of the 12 abodes of Lord Shiva. It is one of the Jyotirlinga temples in India. Taraknath Temple is a famous Hindu shrine situated at Tarkeshwar in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. It is one of the popular places of Hindu pilgrimage in Eastern India. Some of the auspicious occasions at this temple are Shravana month, Maha Shivratri, Chaitra Sankranti and so on. Inside the temple of Taraknath, Lord Shiva is worshiped as Taraknath or Tarakeswar. Jai Baba Bholenath Jai Baba Maheswar Jai Mahakal

I had visited this place by two wheeler. I was wondering if there is a proper parking facility but didn't find any. When I reached the place one guy from a shop asked me to park it infront of his shop and asked me to keep our shoes there for FREE! Then he asked us to take flowers and Prasad from his shop and charged Rs100 for small one. I had to agree as my two wheeler was there for security reasons. Then he was taking us to priest so that now it will be his turn to scam us in the name of darshan and Pooja. However, we politely refused. We made darshan on our own. Keeping that aside, this is one of the best place to visit and offer prayers to Lord Shiv . Take a holy drip near pond before darshan. Try to visit this place very early in the morning. Men are not allowed to enter with shirts/t-shirts for darshan. This place is managed by female security officers.

In West Bengal we have a prevalent Krishna culture...but the most prominent place of Shiva worship is definitely taraknath temple in tarakeswar...the temple is located very near from the station and pretty well maintained...if we can go early in the morning we can see the original linga..before they put the silver hood on top of it...the temple open around 5 AM in morning...the arati in morning and evening is really powerful ones...we stayed at Hanuman choti nearby and had a early morning darshan as well...i strongly recommend visiting and meditating in this place to feel the energy of Shiva

It is one of oldest Shiva temple of wb. This witnesses large foot fall on holidays and Mondays . There are many shops and pilgrimage house in its vicinity. There are many priests to help to offer puja in the temple.

Very old and famous Hindu temple of Lord Shiva. Shiva Linga is worshipped here in the name of Baba Taraknath. Thousands of people turn out here every day for its unworldly majesty. But the ambience around here is worse. There is no proper maintenance and cleanliness of the temple as well as of the temple premises, including Dudhpukur, where devotees take their holy dips. No discipline at all. There is no systematic way of queue. People are gathering haphazardly for entering into the temple, and the most horrible thing is that Panda Raj. They used to hackle people all the way.