Sahid Gate or Shahid Gate ( lit. Martyr's Gate) is a monument in

Kathmandu Kathmandu () is the capital and largest city of Nepal, situated in the central part of the country within the Kathmandu Valley. As per the 2021 Nepal census, it has a population of 845,767 residing in 105,649 households, with approximately 4 mi ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

. The monument was inaugurated on 13 April 1961. As of 2016, there are five statues in the gate. Four men, namely Dharma Bhakta Mathema,

Gangalal Shrestha Ganga Lal Shrestha (Devanagari: गङ्गालाल श्रेष्ठ; 1919 –h 28 January 1941) was a Nepalese revolutionary who was executed by the autocratic Rana dynasty, Rana regime. He is honoured as one of the four martyrs of ...

Dashrath Chand Dasharath Chand Thakuri (; 1903 – 28 January 1941) was a martyr of the Nepalese Democratic Movement and a politician of Nepal who was active in starting a political revolution in Nepal during the Rana rule. He was born at Baskot of Baitadi dist ...

, and

Shukraraj Shastri Shukra Raj Shastri Joshi(Nepali language, Nepali: जाेशी) (born Shukra Raj Joshi) (1894–24 January 1941) was a Nepalese social activist from Newar community, an intellectual and fighter for democracy who was executed by the autocra ...

, who are considered

martyrs A martyr (, ''mártys'', 'witness' Word stem, stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In ...

since they stood against the 104-year-old Rana Regime, have their statues above their arms established here. On top of all is a statue of former

King Tribhuvan Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah Dev (), (30 June 1906 – 13 March 1955) was King of Nepal. Born in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, he ascended to the throne at the age of five, upon the death of his father, Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, and was cr ...

, who, in B.S. 2007 (A.D. 1950) cooperated with people to introduce democracy in the country. The gate was designed by Shankar Nath Rimal. King Mahendra inaugurated the monument and named it Nepal Smarak. However, people started calling it Shahid gate, a name by which it is presently called. In 2012, the Nepali cabinet meeting decided to move the statue of Tribhuvan from the Gate and to the Narayanhiti Museum leaving only the statues of the martyrs at the monument.

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