In 1970, the giant gold-plated necklace engraved with precious stones went missing from the Temple of Taleju - the goddess known as the chief protective deity of Nepal. Its disappearance was made ...

But in 2008 Nepal’s supreme court essentially rejected ... Ananta Jwalananda Rajopadhyaya, the head priest of the Taleju Temple—which adjoins the old royal palace where Patan’s kings used ...

Kathmandu (Nepal), Oct 23 (ANI): A long Serpentine queues were witnessed outside the famous Taleju Bhawani Temple in Nepal as it opened its gates for devotees on the auspicious occasion of ...

As Nepal’s spring trekking and tourism season ... the magnificent 16th-century, pagoda-style Taleju temple casts its long shadow over the scores of other (mostly) Hindu monuments of Durbar ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees gathered at a revered temple in Nepal’s capital on Wednesday to celebrate one of the country’s biggest religious festivals.

The nearby Naga Pokari, a holy pool surrounded by a cobra statue, is where the goddess Taleju is believed to take ceremonial baths. # Nyatapola Temple Standing as Nepal’s tallest temple ...

A holy man smokes marijuana at the Pashupatinath Hindu temple during Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) 34,796 people played the daily ...