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Kumbheshwar Temple
An individually named temple in the official 2015 earthquake damage assessment.
Konti, Patan · Bagmati Province
Not established
As documented: date not establishedApproximate locality
27.6767°, 85.3258° · not a surveyed footprintHow to read this history
- Approximate locality marker. Where the reference locates a square or another temple in the same precinct, the coordinate identifies that locality and is not a surveyed building footprint.
- Access date is not a field inspection. This selected chronology is not a complete list of all episodes.
- Underlying bibliography is available with access status; independent specialist review remains outstanding.
AI-assisted source review: 2026-09-28. Independent specialist review: not completed.
The recorded chronology
Selected episodes. Rebuilding and later changes are distinguished from damage.
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25 April 2015 AD
The official assessment records partial earthquake damage to the temple.
eventSupported in consulted sourcesThe official assessment records partial earthquake damage to the temple.
Assessment records condition in July 2015. Surviving a quake does not mean a building was undamaged. No completion date for later repairs is inferred.
- Kathmandu Valley joint monitoring mission: Annex 8 damage inventory ↗Nepal Department of Archaeology / UNESCO, ICOMOS and ICCROM · Annex 8, 30 July 2015 assessment, serial 58; PDF pages 82–84 · Accessed 2026-09-28
dateSupported in consulted sources25 April 2015
- Kathmandu Valley joint monitoring mission: Annex 8 damage inventory ↗Nepal Department of Archaeology / UNESCO, ICOMOS and ICCROM · Annex 8, 30 July 2015 assessment, serial 58; PDF pages 82–84 · Accessed 2026-09-28
actorUnknownNo human actor: natural damage.
Cause and responsibility must not be inferred from a ruin alone.
Location & last documented condition
Approximate locality; not a surveyed historic footprint.
- Kumbheshwar Temple — article and references ↗Wikipedia contributors · History / damage account; see source context · Accessed 2026-09-28
Current physical condition has not been independently checked for this edition.
Source context
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References are discovery leads unless marked as consulted.
- Kathmandu Valley joint monitoring mission: Annex 8 damage inventory ↗ · Nepal Department of Archaeology / UNESCO, ICOMOS and ICCROM
Original PDF, pages 82–84: assessment updated 30 July 2015. Cross-checked PDF text layer corrects misaligned scraped rows. Records historical damage, not the present condition.
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Reference article consulted for identity/location. Underlying works are separate sources; bibliographic capture is not consultation.
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