Today the importance of the village Maluti lies in accommodating 72 ancient temples. It is heard that the king of Nankar state constructed 108 temples in incipient stage. Later generation could not maintain such huge number of monuments and most of them were left uncared for. Wiith the passing of time as many as 36 monuments dilapidated and finally grounded. Only 72 out of the lot could survive.

As regard to temple architecture of Maluti it can be found existing temples that no particular style like Nagara, Vesar or Dravida have been followed. The specialist artisans who were obviously from Bengal had given shape to numerous designs while constructing temples of Maluti. These designs may be classified into five categories.