Sun Temple

Sun Temple is an archaeological site in Patan Veraval, Gir Somnath, Gujarat. Sun Temple is situated nearby to the Hindu temple Makardhwaj Hanuman Mandir, as well as near the suburb Somnath.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Somnath Temple and Somnath railway station.

Somnath Temple

Hindu temple

Photo: B. SurajPatro1997, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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. Somnath Temple is situated 3 km southwest of Sun Temple.

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 2 km west of Sun Temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Somnath and Veraval.

Somnath

Suburb

Photo: Ms Sarah Welch, CC0.

Somnath is a suburb, which is situated 3 km southwest of Sun Temple.

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 Sun Temple.

Sun Temple

Type: Archaeological site
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Patan Veraval, Gir Somnath, Gujarat, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude

20.90156° or 20° 54′ 6″ north

Longitude

70.42696° or 70° 25′ 37″ east

Open location code

7JGGWC2G+JQ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4297641583

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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