UPSC Prelims 2022 · GS Paper 1 · Q6

Current Affairs

Medium · Somnath Temple, History and Recent Developments

With reference to the recent inauguration of a new Circuit House near the Somnath Temple at Veraval by the Prime Minister, consider the following statements about the temple:

1. Somnath is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines dedicated to Lord Shiva.

2. The medieval scholar Al Biruni described the temple in his writings.

3. The Pran Pratishtha of the present Somnath temple in 1951 was performed in the presence of President S. Radhakrishnan.

How many of the statements given above are correct?