Batadrava Than
Recently, an Indian politician was prevented from visiting Batadrava Than in Assam.
- Batadrava Than is located in Nagaon district of Assam.
- Also known as the Bordowa Than, it is one of the most sacred sites for Assamese Vaishnavites.
- It is a temple complex at the birthplace of revered Vaishnavite reformer-saint Srimanta Sankardeva.
- Sankardeva founded the first-ever Kirtan Ghar at Bordowa in 1494 AD to practise and preach the neo Vaishnavite faith during the fifteenth century in Assam, and propagated the Ek Saran Naam Dharma.
- It is enclosed by a brick wall and has two entrances.
- The Kirtan Ghar, a ....
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