Shankharapur
Shankharapur is a municipality in Kathmandu District in Bagmati Province of Nepal that was established on 2 December 2014 by merging the former Village development committees Bajrayogini, Karkigaun, Bhulbu, Indrayani, Lapsiphedi, Naglebhare, Pukhulachhi and Suntol.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: municipality in Kathmandu District, Nepal
- Also known as: “Shankarapur”
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 Shankharapur.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nagarkot and Kageshwori Manohara.
Nagarkot
Photo: Laxman Thapa, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nagarkot is a village in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. It is 32 km north-east of Kathmandu on the northern fringe of the Kathmandu Valley. Nagarkot is famous for its Himalayan views, the Himalayan peaks at sunrise being particularly magnificent.
Kageshwori Manohara
Town
Photo: Satyamfxr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kageshwori-Manohara is a municipality in Kathmandu District in the Bagmati Province of Nepal that was established on 2 December 2014 by merging the former Village development committees of Aalapot, Bhadrabas, Danchhi, Gagalphedi, Gothatar and Mulpani. Kageshwori Manohara is situated 6 km west of Shankharapur.
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 3½ km northeast of Shankharapur.
Shankharapur
- Categories: municipality of Nepal and locality
- Location: Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.7307° or 27° 43′ 50″ northLongitude
85.4662° or 85° 27′ 58″ eastElevation
1,632 metres (5,354 feet)Open location code
7MV7PFJ8+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 6646454832OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Thai—“Shankharapur” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “শংকরপুর”
- German: “Shankharapur”
- Kurdish: “Shankharapur”
- Maithili: “शंखरापुर नगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “शंखरापुर नगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “शङ्खरापुर नगरपालिका”
- Portuguese: “Shankarapur”
- Thai: “ศังขราปุระ”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ilaka Administration Office Sankhu and Narayan temple.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shankharapur”. Photo: Sundar1, CC BY-SA 4.0.