The human habitation of Rajadooar where the temple of Lord Doul Govinda is located is protected by an elongated stretch highland named Chandra Bharati Mandap (mound). It is believed that poet Anantakandali of Hajo who was also famous as poet Chandra Bharati for his works 'Kumar Haran Kabya' came here to participate in a symposium on the Epic-Mahabharata held at Umananda. This symposium is said to have been organised in honour of Maharaj Nara-Narayan; the great Koch king, and poet Chandra Bharati was welcomed at this hillock at North Guwahati. The poet was over whelmed by the bounty of Nature all around, the intersepersed green hills on both the north and south, channeling the Brahmaputra down to the west with shrines of gods and goddesses located in both the banks. All this made feel elated; it was unblemished joy for him. He saw to his west, the hillock of Ashwakranta or Ashwaklanta where Shri Krishna stopped his chariot on his way to Rukmini Nagar, to give rest to the horses. In later age, the temple ofShri Vishnu-in-Eaternal Sleep and ShriJanardana were built on the hillock by the Ahom and the Kocha kings. In the British days Lord Curzon. Vice-Roy ordered repair of the temples when the great Earth quake of June 12, 1897 damaged these very badly. Shri Vishnu Pad a foot print of Shri Vishnu is a holy spot on the margin of the river at the foothill where people use to perform Pinda ceremony of the dead ancestors, more particularly on the auspicious day of Ashokastami in the month of Chaitra. Very large number of pilgrims visit the Ashwakranta shrine after taking bath on the Louthitya (Brahmaputra) Their movement up-and-down the hillock from and to river-side makes one wonder how faith is deeply rooted in human mind. The belief is that holy Ganga flows upstream to this shrine on this day of the year. A little away from this hillock stands and islet named Ar-Parbat in the Brahmaputra as a wall blocking the view of the islet called 'Karma Nasha' just below the Deputy Commissioner's court close to Guwahati. It is said that a pilgrime after taking bath in Ashwakranta-kunda of the Louhitya should not get the view of Karma Nasha which nullies Punya (virtues) earned by the pilgrim. In the famous battle of Saraighat, the Mughals set up a Ashwakranta hillock their assault-base against the Ahom army. This stretegy was however foiled by the great hero Lachit Barpokhan, the Ahom general by defeat on the Mughals.

Just opposite the Ashwakranta hillock stand on the other bank of the river, the high hills of Nilachal and Bhubaneswari where the shrines of goddess mother Kamakhya and goddess Bhabaneswari and goddess Bagaladevi are located. The shrine of goddess Kamakhya draws large number of Shakta devotees all the years through, the peak period being the Ambubashi Mela days when pilgrims not only from different parts of the country, but also from abroad assemble on courtyard of the temple and wait for several days have Darshana of the Picha (the sanctum sanctorum) on opening the temple's gate at the end of goddess mother's period. Another shrine is about five kilometers away to the north of Rajadooar at a hillock called Sita Parbat. This is the shrine of goddess Dirgheswari. It is believed that the thigh of Sati whose deadbody was carried by husband Lord Shiva and was cut pieces by Shri Vishnu with his Chakra (wheel) fell at this spot where the Mandir is located. This was how sprang up this shrine of the Shaktas here, as in caseof the shrine of goddess Kamakhya on the hillock Nilachal at the south bank. Here also the belief is that the genetic organ ofSati's deadbody fell on the hillock of Nilachal. This is the genesis of the great shrine of Kamakhya of Kamrup.

Thus the temple of Doul Govinda at Rajadooar is central to the five shrine (Panch- Tritha) namely Manikarneswar, Dirgheswari, Ashwakranta, Kamakhya and Umananda. The Rudresswar Shiva temple is about three kilometers away to the north-west of Rajadooar. The Ahom king Pramatta Singha erected this temple in 1671 shaka at the site where of his predecessor king Rudrasingha breathed his last, as a memorial.

Besides a Namghar each at the different parts of the town, there is one temple of Gopinath at the locality called Silsakoo (a small bridge, built with pieces of big size square and rectangular boulders). The main Auni-Ati Satra's branch is located about two kilometers away to the west close to Ashwakranta hillock. The Satra ofDehingwhich is a bifurcated branch of the original Satra ofDehing ofNagaon has it's premises about five kilometers away to the west. The Garhmur Satra of Majuli has also a camp Satra on the river bank about one kilometer to the west. (The distances mentioned herein are with reference to Shri Shri Doul Govinda Mandir.