SOMNATH TEMPLE 🛕

  

• The Somnath Temple is located in the Prabhas Kshetra near Veraval in Saurashtra, Gujarat. 

• It is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of the God Shiva. Somnath means "The Protector of Moon God". 

• It is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Lord Shiva. 

• This place is considered as a place where Moon (Soma) worshipping the Lord Shiva and hence Shiva is called as Somnath here. 

• Somnath temple was destroyed many times by Islamic kings and rulers.