Image title: Patan Durbar Square

Patan Darbar Square—Listed as a World Heritage Site, the square is among the world's most exquisite urban ensembles. Having been a centre of royal and religious power for over one thousand years, most of its manifold sacred and profane buildings were created in their present form during Patan's period of greatest prosperity under the three successive kings of the 17th century, Siddhi Narasingh, Shri Niwas and Yog Narendra. The Patan Museum is housed in the northernmost quadrangle of Patan Darbar, the previous residential quarters of the palace called Keshav Narayan Chowk [i.e., Keshava-Narayana].

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Elevation of Patan Durbar Square as seen from the palace—Krishna, Taleju bell, Shankar Narayan [Shankara Narayana], Narasimha, Char Narayan [Cara Narayana], Krishna Mandir, Vishvanath [Vishvanatha], Bhimsen [Bhimasena];—Urbanistic Conservation & Design Study by Eduard F. Sekler and Michael F. Doyle, 1983. Rendering after a drawing by Dennis Findley.

Plan based on surveys of Carl Pruscha and Wolfgang Korn, Niels Gutschow and Bijay Basukula, Eduard Sekler and Michael Doyle, Kutsohiko Watanabe, Compilaton by Götz Hagmüller—Museum garden, Bhandarkhal Tank, Mani dhara, Patan Museum, Mul Chowk, Sundari Chowk, Degutale temple, Krishna Mandir, Bell.—Drawing by Sushil Rajbhandari, 1996.

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The Patan Museum is located on the Durbar square of Patan (Lalitpur/Lalitapura, Kathmandu, Nepal) which is associated Keshav Narayan Chowk (Keshavnarayan)—a form of Lord Vishnu. Being listed as a World Heritage Site, the whole of Durbar square is filled with exquisite temples, sculptures and other ancient structures, of which the ancient history history can be traced to the Malla Kings of Lalitpur. It is an important site for both Buddhism and Hinduism.