Saturday, December 30, 2006

Gangtok, Sikkim


Prayer wheels in Gangtok
Originally uploaded by MykReeve.
A hermitic monastery was built in Gangtok in 1716. Then again in 1840, Enchey Monastery was constructed. Thutob Namgyal, the Sikkimese monarch shifted his capital from Tumlong to Gangtok in 1894. Sikkim became an Indian state in 1975.

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