The most sacred among the 12 jyotirlings in India, Somnath Temple is located in Veraval region of Junagadh district. Somnath means ‘Lord of Moon’ and the town gets its name from the Somnath ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the revered Somnath Jyotirlinga temple on Sunday in Gujarat's Gir Somnath district, where he offered prayers and performed a special ‘puja’.

A Shivling of the Somnath Temple that was destroyed a thousand years ago, when Mahmud Ghazni had invaded India, is in the process of being revived. A few Agnihotri priests had taken the broken ...