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The area where it is located is often referred to as Gunbaha, which can be roughly translated from Newari as ‘recreational forest place’.  The main temple is a three-story high building, which was carefully constructed with the utmost attention to detail. Inside the temple is a statue of the goddess Bajrayogini featuring a red face with three eyes as well as hands, which have the thumb and middle finger carefully, decorated. The statue is surrounded by ornaments."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"protected area","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q473972"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4848945#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Kathmandu District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q797472","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu-district"},{"text":"Bagmati Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104015","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/bagmati-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4848945#P131"}},{"key":"heritage","label":"Heritage status","values":[{"text":"Tentative World Heritage Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1459900","start":"2008-01-30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4848945#P1435"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajrayogini_Temple","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4848945"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Bajrayogini Temple located?","a":"Bajrayogini Temple is located in Kathmandu District, Bagmati Province, Nepal."}],"related":[{"name":"Mount Everest","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mount-everest"},{"name":"Himalayas","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/himalayas"},{"name":"Kathmandu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"},{"name":"Kangchenjunga","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kangchenjunga"},{"name":"Annapurna (mountain range)","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/annapurna-mountain-range"},{"name":"Dhaulagiri","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dhaulagiri"},{"name":"Makalu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/makalu"},{"name":"Lhotse","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lhotse"},{"name":"Cho Oyu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/cho-oyu"},{"name":"Manaslu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/manaslu"},{"name":"Pokhara","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pokhara"},{"name":"Lumbini","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lumbini"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[{"name":"Lapsiphedi","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lapsiphedi","km":1.8},{"name":"Bajrayogini","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bajrayogini","km":2.4},{"name":"Suntol","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/suntol","km":2.5},{"name":"Shankharapur","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/shankharapur","km":2.6},{"name":"Pukhulachhi","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pukhulachhi","km":2.9},{"name":"Gagalphedi","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/gagalphedi","km":3.8}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Bajrayogini_Temple_at_Bajrayogini.jpg/960px-Bajrayogini_Temple_at_Bajrayogini.jpg","width":640,"height":859,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Mero Raja","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bajrayogini_Temple_at_Bajrayogini.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Bajrayogini Temple","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajrayogini_Temple","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): बज्रयोगिनी मन्दिर","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q4848945","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4848945","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Bajrayogini Temple at Bajrayogini.jpg by Mero Raja (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bajrayogini_Temple_at_Bajrayogini.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Bajrayogini Temple, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Bajrayogini Temple at Bajrayogini.jpg — Mero Raja, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Bajrayogini Temple\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/bajrayogini-temple. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T14:28:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/bajrayogini-temple","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/bajrayogini-temple","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/bajrayogini-temple?lang=ne"}}