Maa Nalateswari Temple is one of the 51 places where parts of Sati's body fell thus it is known as Shakti peethas.

The throat of Sati or “Nala” fell here as known by tradition. This is a beautiful place with fine vicinity and plateaus all around it where Maa Nalateswri resides and has resemblance with Kamakha and Kalighat pithas. The goddess of this place is known as Maa Nalateswri who is also praised as Maa or “Bhagobidhata-Nalateswri” or Devi Parvati or Kalika. According to the localities, in 252th Bengali year or “Bongapto”, “Kamdev” (the Hindu god of love and desire) who had dreamt about its existence discovered the larynx of maa sati at this Nalahati forest.

The “Garb Griha” (sanctum sanctorum) of this temple is crowned with a raised pinnacle where deity of Maa Nalateswri is worshipped. The feeling of positive energy (that helps to destroy the evils of life) rises within as you look at the deity of Maa. With large “Trinayan” and golden red tongue of the deity below this lays the “Nala” or throat of the divine sati. No matter how much water is being poured down the throat, it will never gets overflowed or dried up. A few kilometres away from this temple lays the shrine of Jogesh Bhairab, Ganesha temple and a mysterious neem tree.

Puja ceremonies start from opening of the “Garb Griha” (sanctum of sanctorum) at 5:30 am and end at 8:30 pm but the timings do change with the seasons.

Goddess of Fortune: It is being written for ages and then observed as a fact that worshippers/disciples of this temple who offer puja here get their wish granted without any doubt. Anyone who goes there and worships there with their heart certainly gets all his desires fulfilled. In fact the disciples get more than they wished for. Maa Nalateswari makes everyone's dream come true.

So come and visit the temple of Maa Nalateswari and let her blessings being serenity to your mind!