Dharahara, also called Bhimsen Tower, is a twenty two-storey, 61.88-metre-tall tower at the centre of Sundhara, Kathmandu, Nepal. It was first built in 1832 by Mukhtiyar Bhimsen Thapa under the commission of Queen Lalit Tripurasundari and was a part of the architecture of Kathmandu recognized by UNESCO.The 22-storey rebuilt tower will be inaugurated on April 24, on the eve of the day when the 7.6-magnititude earthquake had rattled the country in 2015.he original one, built by the first prime minister of Nepal Bhimsen Thapa, was destroyed in the 1934 earthquake. Rana Prime minister Juddha Sumsher Rana reconstructed it which was destroyed by the April 2015 earthquake. Under the coordination of the National Reconstruction Authority, the Reconstruction of the monument took place.The inauguration ceremony was organized on the eve of the sixth memorial day of the Gorkha earthquake which occurred on April 25, 2015. Reconstruction of the tower had begun in October 2018. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli inaugurated the historical Bhimsensthmbha (Dharahara) on April 24, 2021 in Sundhara, Kathmandu.