Junagadh Gate Somnath Gujarat

Junagadh Gate is a legendary gate in the history of fortresses and monuments in Somnath. It is the same gate which acted as an entryway for Mahmud of Ghazni to ransack the joie de vivre of Somnath Temple and for that reason annihilated it to the land. Since then this Gate holds a special quantity of historic relevance. The vast Junagadh gate was not out of danger of his fury moreover, he attacked on the gate and put it into pieces when he was all set to devastate the outstanding Shaivite temple. Astoundingly, each swashbuckler has to enter the municipality of Somnath through Veraval, have to come through the Junagadh gate which has triple gate and is around more than a thousand centuries old. Not only this, the complicate carvings of the gate will also grab your attention and thus serves your purpose of a thought provoking sightseeing trip to Somnath overwhelming forts and monuments.

Besides, a famous the then Sun temple named as Mai Puri lies very close to the Junagadh Gate at the distance of just one km is now rehabilitated as a mosque will also divert your attention towards itself.

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