Bhairabnath Temple

The wide fronted, triple-roofed Bhairabnath Temple is devoted to Bhairab, the fearsome incarnation of Shiva, whose partner involves the Nyatapola Temple over the square. The sanctuary was harmed however not pulverized in the 2015 seismic tremor but rather a few contiguous structures crumbled. In spite of Bhairab's fearsome forces and his monstrous sanctuary, the divinity is portrayed here as an immaterial head only 15cm high! Calmly stacked against the north mass of the sanctuary are the colossal haggles from the chariot used to pull the picture of Bhairab around town amid the Bisket Jatra Festival in mid-April.
                                                         The principal sanctuary on this site was a humble structure worked in the mid seventeenth century, however King Bhupatindra Malla included an additional story in 1717 and a third level was included when the sanctuary was remade after the 1934 quake. The last form of the sanctuary has a comparable rectangular arrangement to the Bhimsen Temple in Patan's Durbar Sq.

                                                                   A little opening in the sanctuary's focal entryway (beneath a line of cut pig noses) is utilized to push offerings into the sanctuary's inside; preceding the 2015 seismic tremor, ministers got to the inside through the little Betal Temple, on the south side of the fundamental pagoda, however this crumbled completely, and rebuilding work is in progress. 

The sanctuary's veneer is protected by two metal lions holding the Nepali banner, the main national banner that is not rectangular or square. To one side of the entryway is a picture of Bhairab painted on rattan, enhanced with a frightful laurel of wild ox guts. Head here at sunset to hear customary reverential music.