Somnath temple
Somnath Temple is a Hindu temple, located in Prabhas Patan, Veraval, in Gujarat, India. It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites the Tirtha Kshetra for Hindus and is the first among the twelve jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: B. SurajPatro1997, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Residential area
- Description: Shiva temple in Gujarat, India
- Also known as: “Prabhas Patan Shiva temple”, “Somanatha temple”, “Somnath”, “Somnath Patan Mandir”, and “Somnath Temple”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Somnath railway station.
Somnath railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sbilogic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Somnath Terminus is a terminal railway station in the city of Veraval, Gujarat. It is under Bhavnagar railway division of Western Railway zone of Indian Railways. The Somnath temple is 1.4 kilometres away from this railway station. Somnath railway station is situated 690 metres north of Somnath temple.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Somnath and Veraval.
Veraval
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Veraval-Somnath is a city on the west coast of India in the Junagadh district in the state of Gujarat. The Somnath Temple in the Prabhas Kshetra, near Veraval, is the most sacred of the twelve Jyotirlings of the God Shiva.
Sutrapada
Town
Sutrapada is a city and a municipality in Gir Somnath district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Sutrapada is located 16 km distance from its District Main City Veraval. Sutrapada is situated 9 km southeast of Somnath temple.
Somnath temple
- Category: Shiva temple
- Location: Patan Veraval, Gir Somnath, Gujarat, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
20.88958° or 20° 53′ 23″ northLongitude
70.40714° or 70° 24′ 26″ eastElevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
7JGGVCQ4+RVOpenStreetMap ID
way 559248633OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Somnath temple” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “معبد سومناث”
- Armenian: “Սոմնաթ”
- Assamese: “সোমনাথ মন্দিৰ”
- Bengali: “সোমনাথ মন্দির”
- Bengali: “সোমনাথ”
- Catalan: “Patan Somnath”
- Catalan: “Somnath”
- Chinese: “索姆納特”
- Chinese: “索姆纳特”
- Chinese: “索姆纳特寺”
- Dutch: “Somnath”
- Egyptian Arabic: “معبد سومناث”
- French: “Somnath”
- French: “Somnâth”
- French: “Somnāth”
- German: “Somnath-Tempel”
- German: “Somnath”
- German: “Tempel Somnath”
- Gujarati: “સોમનાથ મંદિર”
- Gujarati: “સોમનાથ”
- Hebrew: “מקדש סומנאת”
- Hindi: “सोमनाथ मंदिर”
- Hindi: “सोमनाथ मन्दिर”
- Hindi: “सोमनाथ”
- Indonesian: “Somnath”
- Italian: “Somnath”
- Japanese: “ソームナート”
- Japanese: “ソムナス”
- Kannada: “ಶ್ರೀ ಸೋಮನಾಥ ಜ್ಯೋತಿರ್ಲಿಂಗ”
- Maithili: “सोमनाथ मन्दिर”
- Malayalam: “Somnath”
- Malayalam: “സോംനാഥ് ക്ഷേത്രം”
- Malayalam: “സോമനാഥ ക്ഷേത്രം”
- Malayalam: “സോമനാഥ്”
- Marathi: “सोमनाथ मंदिर”
- Marathi: “सोमनाथ”
- Marathi: “सोरटी सोमनाथ”
- Marathi: “सोरठी सोमनाथ”
- Nepali: “सोमनाथ मन्दिर”
- Oriya: “Somnath”
- Oriya: “ସୋମନାଥ”
- Panjabi: “ਸੋਮਨਾਥ ਮੰਦਰ”
- Persian: “سومنات”
- Russian: “Сомнатх”
- Sanskrit: “सोमनाथः”
- Santali: “ᱥᱚᱢᱱᱟᱛᱷ ᱢᱩᱱᱫᱤᱞ”
- Santali: “ᱥᱚᱢᱱᱟᱛᱷ ᱢᱩᱱᱫᱤᱨ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Somnath”
- Sindhi: “سومناٿ تي محمود عزنوي جي ڪاهه”
- Sindhi: “سومناٿ مندر”
- Spanish: “Prabhas Kshetra”
- Spanish: “Prabhas Patan”
- Spanish: “Prabhas Patán”
- Spanish: “Prabhas Tirtha”
- Spanish: “Prabhas”
- Spanish: “Prabhás”
- Spanish: “Prabhasa”
- Spanish: “Prabhasaksetra”
- Spanish: “Prabhasakshetra”
- Spanish: “Somanatha”
- Spanish: “Somnath”
- Tamil: “சோமநாதர் கோயில்”
- Tamil: “சோம்நாத் கோயில்”
- Tatar: “Сомнатх”
- Telugu: “సోమనాథ్”
- Telugu: “సోమ్ నాథ్”
- Thai: “โสมนาถมนเทียร”
- Turkish: “Somnat”
- Turkish: “Somnath”
- Ukrainian: “Сомнатх”
- Urdu: “سومنات”
- Urdu: “سومناتھ مندر”
- Western Panjabi: “سومناتھ مندر”
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