Key Monastery
Good to know
- Best time to go
- June to October
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- not-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Key Monastery, also written Ki or Kye Gompa, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery perched on a conical rocky hill above the Spiti River at 4,166 metres, and is the largest and most photographed monastery in Spiti Valley. The whitewashed buildings stacked against the eroded cliff face with snow-capped peaks behind have made this one of the iconic architectural images of the high Himalayas. The monastery houses several hundred monks and contains old murals, manuscripts, and thangkas.
Where next?
