Design Gallery
The Stok Palace - 1
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The Stok Palace looking grand but simple sitting on a flat piece of land.
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Traditional windows forming a symmetrical pattern on the walls of the palace.
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The perspective reveals the windows and rabsal's on the walls of the palace.
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Rabsals protruding out and Stupa's placed within a niche of the walls of the palace.
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A tall dhwaja greets you at the entrance of the palace.
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A traditional window painted in earthy hues.
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A handmade texture created on the palace walls.
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The grand and intricately coloured roofed entrance.
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This image reveals the carefully carved Lansa script on the panels of the roof.
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The doors of the palace adorn a yellow fabric signifying that is it an important place.
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From below the roof is vibrantly painted, in contrast to the off-white building architecture.
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The roofed area in the courtyard is where the Royal family dines; the open space is a cafe.
Stok Palace is where the royal family of Ladakh resides permanently. This magnificent structure commands a view over the village of Stok. Painted in the archetypal off-white with traditional windows, it has been beautifully carved and colourfully painted pillars and doorways, leading into the palace. It lends itself to natural simplicity with its earthy palette of colours. The entrance of the palace has inscriptions in the Lansa Script, and to the forefront is a huge stone courtyard enclosed with walls and seating arrangements to one side. Hand painted ethnic doors are present all over the palace. The courtyard has a huge 'dhwaja' or flag installed in the centre. The palace is famous for the collection of ancient and valuable objects of the Ladakhi heritage - like utensils, clothes, jewellery, weapons and currencies - that it houses in the royal families personal museum.
For more details: http://dsource.in/resource/stok-palace
