Hetampur

Hetampur is a large village[1] in Suri Sadar subdivision of Birbhum District in the Indian state of West Bengal.

As of the 2011 Census, Hetampur had a population of 2,388; 1,188 males and 1,200 females, giving a ratio of 1010 compared to the West Bengal state average of 950.

During the late 1940s till about 1952 Indian artist Mukul Dey conducted detailed photographic survey of Birbhum-Barddhaman group of terracotta temples.

Chandranatha Siva Mandir in Hetampur of Dubrajpur, Birbhum built in 1847 is Octagonal pinnacled - Naba Ratna type with terracotta on three sides.

A portrait of Queen Victoria, European nuns and priests form the theme of decoration on a 19th-century temple in Hetampur.