Dharahara

Dharahara additionally called Bhimsen Tower, was a nine-story, 61.88-meter-tall (203.0 ft) tower at the focal point of Sundhara in Kathmandu. It was implicit 1832 by Mukhtiyar (proportionate to Prime Minister) Bhimsen Thapa under the commission of Queen Lalit Tripura Sundari.The tower had a winding staircase containing 213 stages. The eighth floor held a round overhang for onlookers that gave an all encompassing perspective of the Kathmandu valley. It additionally had a 5.2-meter (17 ft) bronze pole on the rooftop.A large portion of the tower given way in the 25 April 2015 Nepal quake, yet the base remains. Around 180 bodies were found in the rubble. The tower broken down amid lunch hour. The main tower was assembled eight years before in 1824 and was 11 stories high.

Amid the seismic tremor of 1834, both towers survived, yet the first Bhimsen's tower endured extreme harm. After a century, on 15 January 1934, another tremor totally wrecked the first tower, and just two of the 11 stories of the second tower remained. The then Prime Minister of Nepal, Juddha Shumsher, in this way did redesign work of the Dharahara tower to completely restore it. After the first Bhimsen Tower was devastated, Queen Lalit Tripura Sundari's tower got to be known as 'Bhimsen Stambha' or 'Bhimsen Tower'.

Stays after the 2015 Earthquake

Dharahara was built for military utilization as a watchtower. At the point when occurrences of national significance happened, trumpets were blown from the top floor of the tower. This was the sign for warriors to gather. This convention of cornet trumpeting proceeded until the breakdown of the tower.On 25 April 2015, another seismic tremor, with an expected greatness of 7.9 (Mw), hit the area, prompting the breakdown of the tower.The quake's epicenter was pretty nearly 29 kilometers (18 mi) east-southeast of Lamjung, Nepal. The structure broken down and just its base survived.The structural planning of Dharahara was composed in both Mughal and European style. It looked like an Islamic minaret. The statue of Hindu divinity Shiva was put on the highest point of the tower.