Prime Minister Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple projects in Somnath, Gujarat.
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The Somnath temple (also known as the Deo Patan) located in Veraval in Saurashtra on the western coast of Gujarat, is the first among the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva.
As documented by J. Gordon Melton, the first Shiva temple at Somnath is said to have been built at some unknown time in the past.
The second temple is said to have been built at the same site by the "Yadava kings" of Vallabhi around 649 CE
The Gurjara-Pratihara king Nagabhata II constructed the third temple in 815 CE, a large structure of red sandstone.
The present temple was reconstructed in the Chaulukya style of Hindu temple architecture and completed in 1951.
Presently the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is the chairman of Somnath Mandir trust.
