{"id":"dharmasthali","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dharmasthali","language":"en","name":"Dharmasthali","name_en":"Dharmasthali","name_ne":"धर्मस्थली","description":"Human settlement in Nepal","headline":"Human settlement in Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Dharmasthali is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of  Tarakeshwar Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 6,530 and had 1,421 households in it.","summary_more":["Dharmasthali is popular for its religion & culture of its native Newa village, and Mahankal temple on the top of a hillock and is only four kilometers from Balaju Ring Road. You can also find Buddhist stupa in Dharmasthali. The popular festival of Dharmasthali is on Panha Chahre also commonly known as Ghode Jatra for 5 days. Dharmasthali has also been mentioned in the Gosainkunda, Silu poem. It has been mentioned that Dharmasthali used to be a place of homestay for the pilgrims travelling to Gosainkunda.","Dharmasthali Village Development Committee Consists of 9 wards. Dharmasthali consists of the natives Newa. The main  communities are Newa, chettri, and Brahmin.","There are about 600 of Newa's and 500 houses of timilsina family ."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"human settlement","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3411948#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/Q3411948#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmasthali","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3411948"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Dharmasthali located?","a":"Dharmasthali 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":"Tarakeshwar","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/tarakeshwar","km":0.7},{"name":"Goldhunga","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/goldhunga","km":1.3},{"name":"Phutung","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/phutung","km":1.6},{"name":"Manmaiju","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/manmaiju","km":1.7},{"name":"Gonggabu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/gonggabu","km":2.7},{"name":"Tokha Saraswati","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/tokha-saraswati","km":3.0}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Dharaban_in_dharmasthali_ward_no-_9_2014-05-26_17-22.jpg/500px-Dharaban_in_dharmasthali_ward_no-_9_2014-05-26_17-22.jpg","width":640,"height":857,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"User:Baniyarashmi","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dharaban_in_dharmasthali_ward_no-_9_2014-05-26_17-22.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Dharmasthali","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmasthali","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): धर्मस्थली","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3411948","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3411948","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Dharaban in dharmasthali ward no- 9 2014-05-26 17-22.jpg by User:Baniyarashmi (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dharaban_in_dharmasthali_ward_no-_9_2014-05-26_17-22.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 Dharmasthali, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Dharaban in dharmasthali ward no- 9 2014-05-26 17-22.jpg — User:Baniyarashmi, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Dharmasthali\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/dharmasthali. Retrieved 3 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T10:00:46Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/dharmasthali","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/dharmasthali","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/dharmasthali?lang=ne"}}