Somnath Temple
- Location
- Veraval, Gujarat, India
- Deity
- Shiva
- Built
- 1951
- Architecture
- Chaulukya
One of the twelve Jyotirlingas, situated on the western coast and rebuilt several times across history.
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Darshan, Seva & Bookings
Timings, online darshan/booking and donation services are handled by the temple management on their official channels.
We do not list third-party booking or donation links; always use the official source above.
History & Significance
Somanatha Temple is a Hindu temple, located in Prabhas Patan, Veraval, in Gujarat, India. It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites, or Tirtha Kshetra for Hindus and is the first among the twelve jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva. The date of construction of the earliest Somnath temple remains uncertain, with estimates varying between the early centuries of the 1st millennium and about the 9th century CE. Various texts, including the Mahabharata and Bhagavata Purana, mention a tirtha at Prabhas Patan on the coastline of Saurashtra, where the later temple would eventually be built, but archaeology has not found traces of an early temple, though there was a settlement there.
Festivals
Festival dates follow the traditional calendar and vary each year — confirm dates with the official website.
Pilgrimage Circuits
This temple is part of the following pilgrimage circuit:
Nearby Temples
- Palitana Jain Temples
- Dwarkadhish Temple
- Siddhivinayak Temple
- Trimbakeshwar Temple
- Sun Temple, Modhera
Distances are straight-line approximations from sourced coordinates.
Sources
- Official website Official website
- Wikipedia Reference