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Durgakund

📍 Durga Temple, Sankat Mochan Road, Banaras Ghats, Varanasi, Sadar, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 222005, India

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associated deity

Durga

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condition state

UNDISPUTED

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construction year

18th century (temple)

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Historians say

The tank and temple form a single complex; the temple is one of the city's most-visited Devi shrines.

Historians say

A stepped sacred tank adjoining the 18th-century red-ochre Durga temple, and the ritual centre of that temple's Navratri observance.

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