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 ...

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 ...

When the Somnath temple and the Jyotirlinga inside it were destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni, a few Brahmins carried the broken fragments with them to Tamil Nadu and shaped them into smaller Shivlingam.

A special three-day exhibition, वाद्यम् - नादस्य यात्रा (Vādyam - Nādasya Yātrā) "Instruments – A Journey of Sound," explores ...

The Somnath Temple is known as one of the earliest and most revered Jyotirlingas. The temple is believed to have been built by Chandra Dev (the Moon God) from gold. Kedarnath, one of the 12 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made a pilgrimage to the Somnath temple in Gujarat's Gir Somnath district, where he prayed at the sacred Shiva shrine, the first of the 12 Jyotirlingas.