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It is nine storeys high; the upper floors accommodated the royal family, while the lower floors held stables and store rooms. Much of the palace is in deteriorated condition, and little survives of its interior decorations. The Palace Museum holds a rich collection of jewellery, ornaments, ceremonial
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or paintings, which are more than 450 years old, with intricate designs still retain the bright colours derived from crushed and powdered gems and stones. Structures around the palace's base include the prominent Namgyal Stupa (Tibetan: གཙུག་གཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མ།, Sanskrit: Uṣṇīṣavijayā), the colourfully
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muraled Chandazik Gompa (Tibetan: སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས།, Sanskrit: अवलोकितेश्वर/Avalokiteśvara) and the 1430 Chamba Lhakhang (Tibetan: བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ།, Sanskrit:मैत्रेय/Maitreya Buddha) with medieval mural fragments located between the inner and outer walls.
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forces took control of Ladakh in the mid-19th century and forced the royal family to move to
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The Leh Palace
Leh Palace is located in Ladakh
Leh Palace is located in India
Ladakh
Leh
India
Coordinates
34°9′58.6″N 77°35′11.0″E / 34.166278°N 77.586389°E / 34.166278; 77.586389
Leh
Ladakh
India
Sengge Namgyal
Dogra
Stok Palace
Tibetan thangka
Archaeological Survey of India
Leh Palace lit at night during the Galdan Namchot festival.
Galdan Namchot
Leh Palace, Morning view (2021)
Potala Palace
"Leh Old Town/Leh Palace"





Ladakh: Architectural Heritage
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