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The Somnath
temple,
also
called Somanātha
temple or Deo
Patan,
is
located
in Prabhas
Patan, Veraval in Gujarat, India.
One
of
the
most
sacred
pilgrimage
sites
for
the
Hindus,
they
believe
it
to
be
the
first
among
the
twelve Jyotirlinga shrines
of Shiva.[1] Reconstructed
several
times
in
the
past
after
repeated
destruction
by
several
Muslim
invaders
and
rulers,[2][3][4][5] it
is
unclear
when
the
first
version
of
the
Somnath
temple
was
built.
Estimates
for
the
first
Somnath
temple
vary
between
the
early
centuries
of
the
1st-millennium
to
about
the
9th-century
CE.[6][7] The
temple's
history
is
a
subject
of
disputes
and
controversial.[8][9]
The
Somnath
temple
was
actively
studied
by
colonial
era
historians
and
archaeologists
in
the
19th-
and
early
20th-century,
when
its
ruins
illustrated
a
historic
Hindu
temple
in
the
process
of
being
converted
into
an
Islamic
mosque.[10][9][11] After
India's
independence,
those
ruins
were
demolished
and
the
present
Somnath
temple
was
reconstructed
in
the Māru-Gurjara
style of Hindu
temple
architecture.
The
contemporary
Somnath
temple's
reconstruction
was
started
under
the
orders
of
the
first
Home
Minister
of
India Vallabhbhai
Patel and
completed
in
May
1951
after
his
death.[12][13] Presently
the Prime
Minister
of
India Narendra
Modi is
the
chairman
of
Shree
Somnath
Mandir
trust.[14][15][16]
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