Dergaon

Dergaon lies in the upper Brahmaputra valley near the Negheriting Shiva temple, a shrine set on a wooded hill. An older stone temple stood in the area before the Ahom king Rajeswar Singha ordered a brick temple built in 1765. The sacred linga was brought from the river and installed in the rebuilt shrine. Its setting links the religious patronage of the Ahom court with the rivers and hills of eastern Assam.