Dharamshala Special

WelcomHeritage Grace Cottage: This 200 year old Summer Palace was built in early 18 th
century. In 1895 it became the residence of the Mahajan family where Mehr Chand Mahajan
joined his father’s legal practice. In July 1947 Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan was appointed to the
boundary commission for the partition of India and Pakistan. Justice Mehr Chand Mahaajn
played a key role in the accession of Kashmir to India.
This manor house was built in the traditional hill style architecture at the turn of the century. The
present owner is Mr. Yogeshwar Mahajn, who has preserved the legacy of his ancestral home in
the ambience of the rooms occupied by historical personalities lime Mahatma Gandhi, Lord
Mountbatten, Sadar Patel etc.

Pragpur was founded in the late 16th century by the Patials in memory of Princess Prag Dei of
the Jaswan Royal family. Pragpur is an ornamental village with unchanged shops, cobblestone
streets, old water tanks, mud-plastered walls and slate-roofed houses. Due to its unique
architecture and pristine beauty, the state government of Himachal Pradesh declared Pragpur as
the country’s first Heritage Village in December 1997.

The Masroor Rock Cut Temple or Himalayan Pyramid is a complex of
temples located in Masroor in Kangra Valley, which is 40 kilometres from Dharamshala. It is a
complex of monolithic rock cut temples, in shikhara style of classical Indian architectural style,
dated by art historians to 6 th –8 th centuries. There is a lake or pond called Masroor lake in front of
this edifice which shows partial reflection the temple.

The land of Himachal Pradesh is called Devbhoomi. A lot of faith centers exist here.
In the Indora sub-division of Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, the temple of Kathgarh
Mahadev is situated. It is the only temple in the world where Shivling exists in such a form
which are divided into two parts, ie, two different forms of mother Parvati and Lord Shiva,
according to the change of planets and constellations, the difference between the two parts of it
continues to dwindle is. In summer it splits into two parts and again forms a form in the winter
season.

The Baijnath temple has been continuously under worship ever since its
construction in 1204 A.D. by two local merchants named Ahuka and Manyuka. The two long
inscriptions in the porch of the temple indicate that a temple of Siva existed on the spot even
before the present one was constructed. The present temple is a beautiful example of the early
medieval north Indian temple architecture known as Nagara style of temples.