Near the Shyama Raya Temple is the Keshta Rays Temple built around 1655. This brick temple imitates the indigenous double hut (jorbangla) design, in which two huts with sweeping curved farades are built, back to back, as one unit. Above the vaulted chambers is the protrusion of the central tower with a peaked roof.
The front of the Temple has a triple-arched entrance and the entire wall is alive with miniature sculptures and decorative motifs. There are scenes from the Ramayana: the great battle scene between Rama, assisted by nkey army battling to rescue Sita (Rama`s wife) kidnapped by Ravana, the lord of Lanka. In these scenes chariots clash, arrows fly menacingly, and hordes of hapless victims fall to their death in the most theatrical poses.
A whole universe of ideas have been captured by a diminutive set of tiles. Further north of the Shyama Raya Temple is the lovely form of the Madan Mohana Temple (constructed around 1694). It is less complex in design and consists of a square building with deep bow-like curved cornices framing the edges of the roof on all four sides. From the centre a tall many-sided tower is capped with a rounded roof. Rows of tiles line the wall surface of the temple, each portraying a theme. Most playful and original are the rows of (plump) ducks waddling around in single file imitating the life-like gestures of a noisy flock.
One can spend hours enjoying the world of terracotta tiles, the humorous details the sensitive rendering of a face, the folds of a garment, the subtle compositions of the miniature tiles, because their impact is both aesthetic and pleasing.