Alchi Monastery

Alchi Monastery or Alchi Gompa is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, known more as a monastic complex of temples in village in the Leh District, under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council of the Union Territory of , India.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: Buddhist monastery in Ladakh, India
  • Also known as: “A-lci Monastery”, “Alchi Chhoskhor”, and “Alci Monastery”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Nimoo Bazgo Hydroelectric Plant.

Dam
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The Nimoo Bazgo Power Project is a run-of-the-river power project on the situated at Alchi village, 75 kilometres from in the Union Territory of . is situated 1¼ km southeast of Alchi Monastery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alchi and Suspol, Leh.

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is a village between and in , . It sites beside the Indus River and its main attraction is the fabulous Gompa or Buddhist monastic complex.

Village
Suspol, also spelled Saspol, is a village and eponymous tehsil headquarter in the Leh district of in . Saspol village is home to Saspol Caves. The interior walls of some of these caves are decorated with unique 15th century CE wall paintings. is situated 3 km north of Alchi Monastery.

Alchi Monastery

Latitude
34.22374° or 34° 13′ 26″ north
Longitude
77.17541° or 77° 10′ 32″ east
Open location code
8J6V65FG+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1830707170
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Wiki­data ID
Q2705908
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Tibetan—“Alchi Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “আলচি বৌদ্ধবিহার”
  • Dutch: “Alchi (klooster)”
  • Dutch: “Alchi”
  • French: “Alchi”
  • German: “Kloster Alchi”
  • Japanese: “アルチ・ゴンパ”
  • Japanese: “アルチ修道院”
  • Japanese: “アルチ寺”
  • Malayalam: “അൽച്ചി”
  • Oriya: “ଆଲଚି ବୌଦ୍ଧବିହାର”
  • Portuguese: “Gompa de Alchi”
  • Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Alchi”
  • Russian: “Алчи-Гомпа”
  • Slovenian: “Samostan Alči”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Alchi”
  • Telugu: “ఆల్చి మొనాస్టరి”
  • Thai: “อารามอาจี”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ལྕི་ཆོས་འཁོར།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ལྕི་དགོམ་པ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ལྕི།”

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