Editing Leh (section)

===Leh Palace===
[[file:Old palace, Leh.jpg|thumb|Old palace of the kings in Leh.]]

The first recorded royal residence in Ladakh, built at the top of the high Namgyal ('Victory') Peak overlooking the present palace and town, is the now-ruined fort and ''gon-khang'' (Temple of the Guardian Divinities) built by King [[Tashi Namgyal]]. Tashi Namgyal ruled in the final quarter of the 16th century CE.<ref>Rizvi (1996), p. 64.</ref> 

The ''Royal Palace'', known as [[Leh Palace]], was built by King [[Sengge Namgyal]] (1612–1642),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Incredible India {{!}} Leh Palace |url=https://www.incredibleindia.org/content/incredible-india-v2/en/destinations/leh-ladakh/leh-palace.html |access-date=2021-10-16 |website=incredibleindia.org}}</ref> presumably between the period when the Portuguese [[Jesuit]] priest Francisco de Azevedo visited Leh in 1631, and made no mention of it, and [[Sengge Namgyal|Sengge Namgyal's]] death in 1642.<ref>Rizvi (1996), pp. 69, 290.</ref> The Leh Palace is nine storeys high; the upper floors accommodated the royal family, and the stables and storerooms are located on the lower floors. The palace was abandoned when [[Kashmiri people|Kashmiri]] forces besieged it in the mid-19th century. The royal family moved their premises south to their current home in [[Stok]] Palace on the southern bank of the Indus River.<ref name=fran1/>