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 ...

Somnath (Gujarat) [India], February 11 (ANI): A priest, Sitaram Shastry, has claimed that he has been the custodian of the broken fragments from the ancient Shivling of Gujarat's Somnath temple ...

According to ancient Hindu scriptures, the Somnath Temple wasn’t just any temple. It was the first Jyotirlinga, the holiest of the twelve sacred shrines dedicated to Lord Shiva, said to be built ...

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.

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.

Revered as the first among the 12 Jyotirlingas, the sacred Somnath Mandir has stood as a ... levitating Jyotirlinga before he "plundered the temple and shattered the Shivalinga into pieces".