Where Her Palms and Her Soles Touched the earth, the world folds its hands.
Ishwaripur · Satkhira Her Palms & Soles Fell here Puja Sat & Tue at noon Kali Puja & Mela yearly Hundred-door legend
The village lane narrows, and the air carries pond water and incense. Then the shrine appears among the trees of Ishwaripur, and beside it a field of bare pillars, all that remains of an older glory. You are standing at the seat where the Palms and the Soles Of Maa Sati Came To Rest, and the ground has never forgotten it.
One of the Fifty-One Shakti Peethas: here Fell the Palms Of Maa Sati's Hands and the Soles Of Her Feet, and the earth of Ishwaripur Was Made Holy By Her Touch.
Legend says a general of Maharaja Pratapaditya followed a ray of light into the bushes and found a stone carved in the shape of a human palm, the sign that began the worship Of Maa Kali here.
In this Peetha The Shakti Is Addressed As Jeshoreshwari, The Goddess Of Jeshore, and her attendant Bhairava is Chanda, keeper of the seat.
The story the pillars remember
The old telling begins with grief. When Maa Sati Gave Up Her Body at Her father's sacrifice, Lord Shiva carried Her in sorrow across Aryavartha, and the Body Of The Goddess came to earth in Fifty-One pieces. Wherever a piece landed, a Shakti Peetha was born, each seat holding both The Shakti and a Kalabhairava.
Upon this ground Fell the Palms Of Her Hands and the Soles Of Her Feet. A brahman named Anari is said to have raised a temple of one hundred doors over the Peetha, in a time no record keeps, and Lakshman Sen and Maharaja Pratapaditya each renewed it in their own reigns. So The Goddess here Took Her Name, Jeshoreshwari, From the old land of Jessore.
What you'll actually see
1
The Natmondir pillars
A large rectangular covered platform once stood beside the main shrine, and from it devotees could see the very face Of The Goddess. Laxman Sen renovated it in the late thirteenth century, though its first builders are unknown. It crumbled after 1971, and today only the pillars remain, standing in quiet rows.
2
The temple of one hundred doors
Tradition credits the brahman Anari with building a hundred-door temple over the Jeshoreshwari Peetha, though its date is lost. The shrine that stands now carries the renewals of Lakshman Sen and of Pratapaditya, whose own worship began with a stone shaped like a palm.
3
The crown given, the crown taken
On 27 March 2021 the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came, offered prayers, and gifted a golden crown To The Goddess. In October 2024, during anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh, the crown was stolen, a loss Her devotees still grieve.
The shrine at Ishwaripur and its ancient walls · photos CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
The day the courtyard fills
Kali Puja and the Mela
Every year on the day of Kali Puja, the temple's caretakers conduct a ceremony For Maa, and a Mela gathers around the temple compound. Pilgrims arrive from all over, irrespective of sectarian difference, to stand where Her Palms and Her Soles Rest.
The date of Kali Puja shifts each year. Confirm the exact day with the temple caretakers before you travel.
Plan your visit
Where
Ishwaripur village, Shyamnagar upazila, Satkhira district, Bangladesh.
Worship days
The priest performs puja every Saturday and Tuesday at noon; daily worship ended after 1971.
Best time
A Saturday or Tuesday toward noon, when the puja is performed.
In the compound
Walk among the Natmondir pillars beside the main shrine; the face Of Maa was once seen from this platform.
Entry
No entry fee is recorded in our sources; confirm current practice with the temple caretakers.
Dress
Dress modestly, as at any Shrine Of Maa Kali; confirm specific customs on arrival.
Good to know
Her Name, Jeshoreshwari, means The Goddess Of Jeshore; the shrine Was Named after the old region of Jessore.
Every Shakti Peetha keeps shrines for both The Shakti and Kalabhairava; here the Bhairava is Chanda.
The temple welcomes pilgrims of every persuasion, and has done so irrespective of sectarian difference.
Questions pilgrims ask
Which Part Of Maa Sati Fell here?
The Palms Of Her Hands and the Soles Of Her Feet. That Is why this seat counts among the Fifty-One Shakti Peethas of South Asia.
When can I attend the puja?
Worship Is Offered To Maa every Saturday and Tuesday at noon. Before 1971 there was a daily routine of worship; the weekly rhythm continues today.
What remains of the old temple?
Tradition speaks of a hundred-door temple built by the brahman Anari. Today the main shrine stands with the bare pillars of the Natmondir beside it, the platform itself having crumbled after 1971.
Walk the sacred map
This Is one Seat among many. Her Body Fell across the whole of the old world:
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