Sankhu
Sankhu is the ancient Newari town located in the north-eastern corner of Kathmandu Valley, about 17 km from the city center of Kathmandu. Mani-Yogini, one of the four Vajra Yoginis of Kathmandu Valley, resides here, and it is located along the historic trade route between Kathmandu and Lhasa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Skrissh2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Nepal
- Also known as: “Sakhu” and “Sānkhu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bajrayogini Temple and Changu Narayan Temple.
Bajrayogini Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Meroraja, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bajrayogini Temple is a Tantric Buddhist temple located at Sakwa in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. It is also well known as Bodhisattva's Temple. The temple is actually a sort of temple complex, with the main temple having been built by King Pratap Malla in the sixteenth century.
Changu Narayan Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Greg Willis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Changu Narayan is an ancient Hindu and Buddhist temple, located on a hilltop of Changu in Changunarayan Municipality of Bhaktapur District, Nepal. The temple is considered to be built in the 4th century AD and is one of the oldest Hindu temples in Nepal. Changu Narayan Temple is situated 4 km southwest of Sankhu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gagalphedi and Chhaling.
Gagalphedi
Suburb
Gapalphedi is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Kageshwari-Manohara Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. Gagalphedi is situated 3 km northwest of Sankhu.
Chhaling
Suburb
Chhaling is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Changunarayan Municipality in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 8,129 with 1,817 houses in it. Chhaling is situated 3½ km south of Sankhu.
Lapsiphedi
Suburb
Lapsiphedi is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Shankharapur Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. Lapsiphedi is situated 4 km northeast of Sankhu.
Sankhu
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Shankharapur, Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tamil—“Sankhu” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sā̃khu”
- Chinese: “三窟”
- Chinese: “桑庫”
- Dutch: “Sankhu”
- German: “Sankharpur”
- Irish: “Sankhu”
- Japanese: “サンキュウ”
- Malay: “Sankhu”
- Nepali: “साँखु”
- Newari: “सक्व”
- Newari: “सांखु”
- Polish: “Sankhu”
- Russian: “Санкху”
- Spanish: “Sankhu”
- Tamil: “சங்கு, நேபாளம்”
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