Bhaktapur Durbar Square
The royal square of the kings of Bhaktapur, who ruled from here until the kingdom fell in 1769. Its palace of fifty-five windows and golden gate face rows of temples, and the whole square is part of the Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site.
- Where
- Bhaktapur, Bagmati, Nepal
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 27.6722, 85.4285
Get the Bhaktapur Durbar Square stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Bhaktapur Durbar Square. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Bagmati volume with your photos and a note.
Near Bhaktapur Durbar Square
Nyatapola Temple 0.1 km
The tallest temple in Nepal, five roofs high, raised in just six months between 1701 and 1702 by King Bhupatindra Malla. Pairs of stone guardians, from wrestlers to lions and goddesses, line its steep stairway, and it has stood through four major earthquakes.
Changu Narayan Temple 4.9 km
One of the oldest Hindu temples in Nepal, founded in the 4th century on a ridge above Bhaktapur and dedicated to Vishnu. Its courtyard is full of stone sculpture from the Licchavi period, and it has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1979.
Kailashnath Mahadev Statue 5.4 km
A standing figure of Shiva, about 143 feet or 44 metres tall, on a hill at Sanga, some 20 km east of Kathmandu. It looms over the road to Dhulikhel and has become both a place of worship and a landmark of the valley's eastern edge.
Gokarneshwor Mahadev Temple 8.5 km
A Shiva temple by the Bagmati near Gokarna, a few kilometres northeast of Boudhanath. A sacred lingam sits in its sanctum, but the place is famous for the crowd of carved stone gods and figures gathered around it.
Boudhanath Stupa 8.5 km
One of the largest spherical stupas in the world, a vast white dome laid out as a mandala in the northeast of Kathmandu. Prayer flags stream from its gilded tower, and pilgrims walk clockwise around it past a ring of monasteries and shops.
Guhyeshwari Temple 8.6 km
A Shakti Peetha on the south bank of the Bagmati, about a kilometre east of Pashupatinath, held especially sacred by Tantric worshippers. King Pratap Malla renovated it in the 17th century.
Pashupatinath Temple 8.9 km
Nepal's holiest Hindu temple, dedicated to Shiva as Pashupati, lord of all creatures, on the banks of the Bagmati. Around the gilded pagoda spread hundreds of smaller shrines, ashrams and cremation ghats, a precinct on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1979.
Bajrayogini Temple 9.9 km
A complex of Tantric Buddhist temples in the forest above Sankhu, on the eastern edge of the Kathmandu Valley. Its main temple, built by King Pratap Malla, honours Vajrayogini, and the shrine is sacred to Hindus as well as Buddhists.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in Bagmati
Questions
Where is Bhaktapur Durbar Square?
Bhaktapur Durbar Square is in Bhaktapur, Bagmati, Nepal. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Nyatapola Temple (0.1 km), Changu Narayan Temple (4.9 km), Kailashnath Mahadev Statue (5.4 km).
How do I get the Bhaktapur Durbar Square stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Bhaktapur Durbar Square and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Bagmati volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Bhaktapur Durbar Square before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Bagmati volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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