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Early medieval · Hindu · Nepal
Kasthamandap
Maru, Kathmandu, Bagmati · 27.7040°, 85.3058°
GorakshanathLicchaviThree-storey timber pagoda
Sacred since
600 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
7th c.; rebuilt after 2015
Licchavi
History & significance
A great wooden public pavilion beside Kathmandu Durbar Square, later given an inner shrine to the yogi Gorakshanath; excavation with radiocarbon and OSL dating placed its oldest fabric in the Licchavi era of the 7th century. It collapsed in the 2015 earthquake and has since been rebuilt.