Devotees offer flower garlands at thanimai temple in Nepal

Devotees from several regions of Nepal offered 91 flower garlands at the Thanimai Temple in Basantapur, Tanahu.

The temple management committee chairman, Jivan Thapa, said that 9,500 people visited the site for worship on Tuesday. During the event, devotees from Tanahu, Lamjung, Gorkha, and Kathmandu brought decorated flower garlands to the temple. Participants performed religious activities, including singing, dancing with traditional musical instruments, and circling the temple three times before tying decorative arches to the temple walls.

The temple, which sits at an altitude of 1,200 meters above sea level, serves as a site for worship and scenic viewing of the Himalayas. It was rebuilt for 2 million rupees after sustaining damage during a 2015 earthquake. The ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation provided 1.4 million rupees for the reconstruction, while the remaining 600,000 rupees came from donations.