Somnath Temple

Prabhas Patan, Gir Somnath District, Gujarat Shaiva tradition

Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 28, 2026. Next scan Oct 28, 2026.

Photograph

Earliest republishable photograph in this record.

Present temple

The standing temple at Prabhas Patan. The year of this reconstruction is not stored.

4 August 2014 Aditya Mahar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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Identified from a secondary account This line records the published identification only. It does not add a construction date or a height. Date not established in this corpus · Documented fact · Medium confidence

Evidence summary

Counts are records in this corpus, including gaps.

1 Republishable photographs

0 Interior photographs

0 Diagrams

1 Documents

About the temple

Somnath Temple is at Prabhas Patan, near Veraval. Secondary accounts call it the first of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva. The date of the earliest temple on the site is not established in this corpus. The building that stands now is a later reconstruction. This record does not date that reconstruction and does not store a photograph.

Primary deity: Shiva as Somnath

The earliest shrine on the site is undated here. The present building is recorded only as a later reconstruction, without a year.