ChanguNarayan

Dating back to the fourth century, it's the oldest Hindu temple still in use in the Kathmandu Valley.

Changu Narayan is an interchangeable word with both the old Nepalese sanctuary and the town that encompasses it. Situated in the Bhaktapur area exactly 12 km east of Kathmandu, Changu Narayan is the most established sanctuary in Nepal and has a real Newari style of engineering extremely consistent with its foundations. With its two-story block red building, the excellent sanctuary roosts on a slope which is likewise called Changu or some of the time Dolagiri. The Changu Narayan sanctuary is committed to Master Vishnu and houses a few of his symbols and some different divinities too. What's more, similar to each other Hindu sanctuary in the subcontinent, this sanctuary also has two separate religions in regards to its past – one relates with the written history as we probably are aware it and another is a legend as told by the neighborhood old stories. Encompassing Changu Narayan is thick woods of Champak tree, and this timberland assumes a significant part in the legends related to the sanctuary.