Taleju BhawaniMallaNewa architectureUNESCO World Heritage
Sacred since
1564 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1564 (Mahendra Malla)
Malla
History & significance
The royal sanctuary of Taleju Bhawani, tutelary goddess of the Malla kings, built by Mahendra Malla in 1564 within Hanuman Dhoka at Kathmandu Durbar Square. It opens to lay devotees only once a year during Dashain, and among its treasures was a seventeenth-century ceremonial necklace now in the Art Institute of Chicago.