Narendra Modi to dedicate golden work at Somnath mandir, inaugurate a new guest house of trust

Ahmedabad, 31 January 2014

Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi will dedicate completed golden conversion works of Shri Somnath mandir at Somnath on 1st February 2014.

Shri Modi will perform puja at Shri Somnath mandir and seek blessings of Somnath dada. He will also inaugurate a new guest house built by Shri Somnath Maheshwari community.

Shrri Modi is Trustee of Shree Somnath Trust.

Somnath mandir’s Trishul, Dhwaj dand and Shikhar are made golden through 10 kd gold donated by well-wishers from Surat and Mumbai.

More than a dozen police jawans and employees of Shree Somnath Trust had accompanied a truck that brought well-crafted golden objects to mandir from Delhi.

According to Vijay Anand from Delhi, a layer of gold and specialized coating over is so thick that the golden top will remain as it is for next couple of hundred years.

Earlier a donor from Surat had donated 35 kg gold, through which the Garbha griha and pillars have been made golden.

The task of making Shikhar golden was completed some time back with the help of two dozen skilled workers, following which Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s time was sought for dedication ceremony. Modi had promised to do the job before Maha Shivratri festival in February.