Janaki Mandir
A great white temple to Sita in Janakpur, the city where she is said to have been born and married Rama. Three storeys of stone and marble cover nearly 1,500 square metres, and it is the heart of the old Mithila country's pilgrim trail.
- Where
- Janakpur, Madhesh, Nepal
- Grade
- Heritage site
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 3 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 26.7304, 85.9257
Get the Janaki Mandir stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Janaki Mandir. 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 Madhesh volume with your photos and a note.
Near Janaki Mandir
Madhubani Painting Villages 45 km
Wall painting done by women of the Mithila region for weddings, moved onto paper only in the 1960s drought.
Janaki Mandir Sitamarhi 45 km
Where Sita is said to have been found in the furrow.
Darbhanga Fort 63 km
The Darbhanga Raj's fort, also called Rambagh, walled round the palace inside it.
Halesi Maratika Caves 86 km
A cave temple in the hills of Khotang, holy to three faiths at once. Hindus worship Shiva here as Halesi Mahadev, Buddhists honour it as the cave of Padmasambhava, and the Kirati Rai regard it as the home of their ancestors.
Gadhimai Temple 92 km
The temple of Gadhimai Devi, a form of Kali, at Bariyarpur in Bara District in the central Terai. It is best known for the Gadhimai festival, which draws huge crowds of pilgrims from Nepal and India to the temple grounds once every five years.
Namo Buddha 99 km
A hilltop stupa 52 km southeast of Kathmandu, marking where an earlier life of the Buddha is said to have given his body to feed a starving tigress and her cubs. It holds relics believed to be his bones and is one of the three great stupas of the valley.
Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve 107 km
Reed beds and freshwater marshes on the floodplain of the Kosi River, spread over 176 square kilometres of the eastern Terai. Protected since 1976 and a Ramsar site since 1987, it shelters Nepal's last herd of wild water buffalo and great flocks of water birds.
Kailashnath Mahadev Statue 111 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.
Questions
Where is Janaki Mandir?
Janaki Mandir is in Janakpur, Madhesh, Nepal. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Madhubani Painting Villages (45 km), Janaki Mandir Sitamarhi (45 km), Darbhanga Fort (63 km).
How do I get the Janaki Mandir stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Janaki Mandir and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Madhesh volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Janaki Mandir before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Madhesh volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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