Somnath

Somnath is a suburb in , , .
Photo: Ms Sarah Welch, CC0.
  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: ancient Hindu pilgrimage site in Veraval, Gujarat
  • Also known as: “Patan Somnath”, “Somanatha Tirtha”, “Somnath Patan”, and “Somnath Veraval”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Somnath Temple and Somnath railway station.

Hindu temple
Photo: B. SurajPatro1997, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a , located in Prabhas Patan, , in , . 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.

Railway station
Photo: Sbilogic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Somnath Terminus is a terminal railway station in the city of , . 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Veraval and Sutrapada.

Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Veraval-Somnath is a city on the west coast of in the Junagadh district in the state of . The Somnath Temple in the Prabhas Kshetra, near , is the most sacred of the twelve Jyotirlings of the God Shiva.

Town
is a city and a municipality in in the Indian state of . is located 16 km distance from its District Main City . is situated 10 km southeast of Somnath.

Somnath

Latitude
20.8907° or 20° 53′ 27″ north
Longitude
70.40253° or 70° 24′ 9″ east
Open location code
7JGGVCR3+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 918557379
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q117078437
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Hindi—“Somnath” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “সোমনাথ”
  • Hindi: “सोमनाथ:”
  • Hindi: “सोमनाथ”

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