Shey Monastery
Shey Monastery or Gompa or the Shey Palace are complex structures located on a hillock in Shey, 15 kilometres to the south of Leh in Ladakh, northern India on the Leh-Manali road.Photo: Kmohankar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: building in India
- Also known as: “Shey Palace”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Thikse Monastery.
Thikse Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Shashank Mehendale, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thiksey Monastery or Thiksey Gompa is a Buddhist monastery affiliated with the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located on top of a hill in Thiksey approximately 19 kilometres east of Leh, in the Ladakh region of northern India. Thikse Monastery is situated 3½ km southeast of Shey Monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shey and Chuchat Yakma.
Shey
Village
Photo: Kiran L Reddy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leh is one of the two capitals of Ladakh, a union territory of India. Leh is in the Indus River Valley, at a crossroads of the old trading routes from Xinjiang, Tibet and Kashmir.
Chuchat Yakma
Village
Chuchat Yakma, also known as Chuchot Yokma, is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is located in the Leh tehsil. Chuchat Yakma is situated 3 km west of Shey Monastery.
Thiksey
Village
Photo: Kiran Jonnalagadda, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thiksey is a village and the headquarters of its eponymous block in Leh district, Ladakh, India. It is located in the Leh tehsil. The Thikse Monastery is located here. Thiksey is situated 4 km southeast of Shey Monastery.
Shey Monastery
- Categories: Gompa, palace, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Leh Ladakh, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.07162° or 34° 4′ 18″ northLongitude
77.63276° or 77° 37′ 58″ eastOpen location code
8J6V3JCM+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 484215321OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q4521832
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Russian—“Shey Monastery” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “謝城王宮”
- Chinese: “谢城王宫”
- Japanese: “シェイ・ゴンパ”
- Japanese: “シェイ寺”
- Portuguese: “Gompa de Shey”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Shey”
- Portuguese: “Palácio de de Shey”
- Portuguese: “Palácio e mosteiro de Shey”
- Russian: “Ше-Гомпа”
- Russian: “Шей Гомпа”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include SH Hamdan Masjid and Ancient Stupas field.
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