namghar

plural namghars · alternative naamghar

1. A prayer hall in Assam for communal worship.

   ‘I have offered a gold flower at the naamghar; to the temple I have offered a trident.’

   2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 10

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   A modern Namghar is an open rectangular hall having accommodation for five hundred to fifteen hundred people.

   1978, SM Dubey, editor, North East India: A Sociological Study, page 192

   The namghar serves the purpose of a prayer hall as well as a hall for holding religious meetings and discussions.

   1993, Surajit Sinha, Anthropology of Weaker Sections, page 40