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The Hanuman Dhoka in the 1850s, during the Kumari Jatra festivities The Hanuman Idol which is the namesake of Hanuman Dhoka. Hanuman Dhoka (Nepali: हनुमान ढोका) is a complex of structures with the Royal Palace of the Malla kings and also of the Shah dynasty in the Durbar Square of central Kathmandu, Nepal.The Hanuman Dhoka Palace (Hanuman Dhoka Darbar in Nepali) gets its ...
Statue of Pratap Malla with his wives and sons at Hanuman Dhoka Palace. The octagonal Krishna Temple was built in 1648–49 by Pratap Malla, either as a response to rival Siddhinarshingh Malla 's Krishna Temple in Patan or as a religious consolation for his earlier failure to conquer that city, or in memory of his two wives, or a combination of ...
It was built in 1564 by Mahendra Malla and is located in Hanuman Dhoka, Kathmandu Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [2] Inside the temple, there is a shire dedicated to Taleju Bhawani, and Kumari Devi. [3] Taleju Temple is only opened once a year on the occasion of Dashain. [4]
Kathmandu Hanuman Dhoka Palace (KHP) also known as Basantapur Durbar Square is an ancient palace in Kathmandu. [1] [2] There are numerous monuments in the square. Some of the monuments in this area are listed as world heritage sites of the UNESCO. [3] The monument list [4] below is populated using the authentic information at Department of ...
In Kathmandu, King Pratap Malla (r. 1641–74) oversaw that city's cultural high point with the construction of the Hanuman Dhoka palace, the Rani Pokhari pond and the first of several subsequent pillars that featured a statue of the king facing the protective temples of Taleju, who the Mallas had by that time adopted as their protective deity ...
The Kathmandu Durbar Square held the palaces of the Malla and Shah kings who ruled over the city. Along with these palaces, the square surrounds quadrangles, revealing courtyards and temples. It is known as Hanuman Dhoka Durbar Square, a name derived from a statue of Hanuman, the monkey devotee of Lord Ram, at the entrance of the palace.
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Also known as the "First Toronto Post Office" (it was the fourth post office in York, but the first one to serve the settlement when it became Toronto in 1834), it is one of the earliest surviving examples in Canada of a building purpose-built as a post office; typical of small, early 19th-century public buildings, combining public offices and ...