Kasthamandap
Good to know
- Best time to go
- October–November, March–April
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Kasthamandap is a three-storey timber pavilion in old Kathmandu that gave the city its name, said to be raised from the wood of a single tree. For centuries it served as a public rest house on the pilgrim and trade route through the valley. The structure collapsed in the 2015 earthquake and has since been rebuilt with traditional joinery and salvaged carved struts. Visitors see the reconstructed hall beside Maru Tole and a shrine to Gorakhnath housed within its ground floor.
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