Gasa Dzong or Gasa Tashi Tongmön Dzong near

Gasa GASA Group (''Gartnernes Salgsforeninger''; "co-operative marketing organisations") is a Danish company that imports and exports flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Founded in 1929 as a fruit, flowers and vegetable auction co-operative, the mul ...

is the administrative center of Gasa Dzongkhag (district) in the northwestern region of

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

. The Dzong was built in the 17th century by Tenzin Drukdra the second

Druk Desi The Druk Desi ( Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་; Wylie:'' 'brug sde-srid''; also called " Deb Raja")The original title is Dzongkha: སྡེ་སྲིད་ཕྱག་མཛོད་; Wylie: ''sde-srid phyag-mdzod''. ...

over the site of a meditation place established by Drubthob Terkungpa in the 13th century. The Dzong was constructed as a bulwark against attacks from the north and named Tashi Tongmön Dzong. It was later expanded by the fourth Desi,

Gyalse Tenzin Rabgye Tenzin Rabgye (1638–1696) was the fourth Druk Desi (secular ruler of Bhutan) who ruled from 1680 to 1694. He is believed to have been the first to have categorized formally the ''zorig chusum'' (the thirteen traditional arts of Bhutan). In 168 ...

. In January 2008 Gasa Dzong was badly damaged by fire.

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Gasa Tashi Thongmön Dzong

Long buried tunnels unearthed below Gasa Dzong
Dzongs in Bhutan Populated places in Bhutan {{bhutan-geo-stub