Madhyapur-Thimi, also known as Thimi, (Nepali: मध्यपुर-थिमि) is a municipality in Bhaktapur District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal.

It is one of the ancient cultural and historical places along the trade route from Bhaktapur to Kathmandu.

The city is situated on elevated land and occupies an area of 11.47 square kilometres (4.43 sq mi), divided into nine administrative wards.

The deputy mayor as of 2022 is Bijaya Shrestha of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) There are indications that the city may be as old as 3000 BC.

A recent work by Mohan Pant and Shuji Funo compared the very regular grid layout of Thimi to other ancient cities in the Indus valley and Nepal.

The details of the grid dimensions of city blocks are very close to those of Mohenjo-daro and Sirkap (part of ruins near Taxila) in Pakistan; also Patan, Nepal.

Because of its position it served as a bulwark between Bhaktapur, Patan and Kathmandu during the late malla period when there were often battles among the three kingdoms of the valley.

In 1825 B.S., during unification campion of Nepal, King Prithivi Narayan Shah conquered Khoppring State (Khopa-dey).

For example: - Yey became Kantipur, - Yala/Patan was renamed to Lalitpur, - Khopa turned into Bhaktapur, and - Thimi was changed to Madhyapur.

In Chaitra 18 2053 B.S the Government of Nepal merged it with five different VDCs to form Madhyapur Thimi municipality.

Now it has been established as a government school and still today also the palace is considered to be the main place of goddess Balkumari.

The people of Kathmandu valley have been worshiping four Ganesh, four Kali, four Kumari, four Varahi, four Mahalaxmi and four Ganga.

Ceremonial rituals in relation to important events of life including marriage, bratabanda etc.

There is a temple of lord Bhairab and some small shrines of different gods and goddess spread around the courtyard.

The legends regarding the temple of goddess Balkumari say that the merchants from ancient Thimi used to go to Lubhu for trading.

Similarly, the Layaku Bhairab dance of Thimi is also started from here which is held for the following four nights of Gai Jatra.

The people agreed and there was a tradition of arranging the food for the demon by a different family of the village daily.

Similarly there is a unique tradition in Bode to pierce the tongue of a young man to mark the day of escapement of the evil and Jatra begins next to that.

They would dance with the traditional spiritual music during the performance they are not allowed to speak, eat or even drink water.

According to them when they are dancing they lose half of their consciousness, heavy clothing starts becoming lighter and when they shiver they feel like in the state of unconsciousness or like when they are asleep.

In Thimi, tongue is bored in front of Bhairab temple of Digu tole.

Some demons hid under the eaves but each of them was also caught with the help of Yanmata, explicitly a long handled torch.

As an illustration, Yanmata, the torch carried by the Sayamese (Sayami- the oil pressers) during walk around the town after tongue boring is the emblem to search if there are any demons left hiding under the eaves.

In the local election of 2017, Madan Sundar Shrestha of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) was elected as mayor, securing 13,960 votes, and Anjana Madhikarmi of Nepali Congress secured 10,678 votes.