to an end after five days, through the celebration of Bijoya Dashami after performing the sacred rituals of Sashthi, Saptami, Ashtami and Navami. Bijoya Dashami will end with the idols of Durga and her four children Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kartik and Ganesha taken in processions for immersion in river or sea. A processions starts from the temple. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi prayed at the temple during his official visit to Bangladesh on 7 June 2015. He was given a model of the goddess Dhakeshwari by the temple authorities. Present condition It was severely damaged during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, and over half of the temple's buildings were destroyed. The main worship hall was taken over by the Pakistan Army and used as an ammunitions storage area. In 2018, the Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited the Dhakeshwari Temple and announced gifting of adjacent land to the temple authorities. Previously, the temple lost a lot of its property to land grabbing. Gallery See also Dhakeshwari Mata Temple, Kumortuli Hinduism in Bangladesh Architecture of Bangladesh Bagha Mosque Khan Mohammad Mridha Mosque Saat Masjid Shahbaz Khan Mosque Shona Mosque Sixty Dome Mosque References Old Dhaka Hindu temples in Dhaka Tourist attractions in Dhaka National symbols of Bangladesh