There is a turn towards south from the curving road to Tumadhi Tole, which is continued by a narrow passage to Potters' Square. It is a square full of potter's wheels and rows of clay pots drying in the sun outside. Children to old aged people are working there to complete the entire cycle of pottery preparation. The smiles is already backed to their faces which was snatched by the 2015 earthquakes. The building around the square were still need to be erect, but life and pottery is running day by day.
This pottery square is the center of Bhaktapur's ceramic industry, and it’s a fascinating place to wander around. The group of photographers and foreign tourist is standing there to prove it. The shops around the square is calling the people to sell the finished article while the firing process at the back of the square, which is lined with mud covered straws kilns.
On the northern side of the square a small hillock is topped by a shady pipal tree and a Ganesh shrine, surrounded by piles of straw for the pottery kilns. In the square itself is a solid-brick Vishnu Temple, which was constructed from remnants of temples destroyed in the 1934 quake, and the double-roofed Jeth Ganesh Temple, whose priest is chosen from the Kumal (potters’) caste. During the harvest in October, every square inch that is not covered by pots is covered by drying rice.
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