Siddheshwari Math ( Siddheshwari Math ) is located on the banks of Navaganga river in Atharkhada village of Magura district headquarters. Siddheshwari Mutt is about 3 km from Magura town. In the distant past this place was known as Kalikatala cremation ground. According to history, long ago there was a monastery in the Kalikatala cremation ground and the Mantrankit Shilakhanda and Kalimurti of Mata Siddhesari. Since it was built in very ancient times, no information is available about the construction period and the builder of Siddheshari temple. Located in the middle of a deep forest, this place was preferred by monks for penance. From the site of Siddheswari Mutt, Purnathis used to travel on the way to Kamakshya along the Navaganga from before the seventeenth century. And then the Siddheshwari Math used to be full of saintly monks.
History
Once upon a time a monk named Rangamacharya from Chittagong region was the abbot of Siddheshwari Mutt. Later, when Shrimant Ray was initiated, it was through him that the abbots started living in the Kalikapur Siddheshari Mutt. At that time, there was no provision for the monks to stay in the monastery, so on the orders of the Deeksha Guru Brahmandgiri, Naldanga's Adishwar Srimantara, he built an ashram for the monks in the previous monastery and donated 250 bighas of land.
After Brahmandgiri's death, due to the negligence of the kings, the negligence and selfishness of the Gomasthas appointed by the abbots of Siddheshwari Math, the condition of the Math gradually increased. The rock was stolen from the temple, damaging the temple structure. The puja house was shifted elsewhere, preserving only the temple rituals. Once this place became full of forest. About 200 years later, a Brahmin saint named Amalananda came here and re-established the monastery.
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