Somnath Temple

Context: PM Modi named Somnath Temple trust chairman

• He is the second Prime Minister to hold post.
• After former PM Morarji Desai, Modi is the second Prime Minister who has been appointed the chairman of the temple trust.

Somnath Temple

• It is also known as the Deo Patan.
• It is located in Saurashtra on the western coast of Gujarat, India.
• It is believed to be the first among the twelve jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva.
• It is an important pilgrimage and tourist spot of Gujarat.
• Reconstructed several times in the past after repeated destruction by several invaders and rulers,the present temple was reconstructed in the Chaulukya style of Hindu temple architecture and completed in May 1951.

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