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| Keywords: Somnath temple ruins (1869).jpg below reflects the state of the building when this photograph was taken as supposed to the current temple building which is a modern reconstruction in the traditional Solanki style In the report 'Somanatha and other mediaeval temples in Kathiawad' of 1931 Henry Cousens wrote Little now remains of the walls of the temple; they have been in great measure rebuilt and pached with rubble to convert the building into a mosque The great dome indeed the whole roof and the stumpy minars ¦are portions of the Muhammadans additions ¦ The great temple which faces the east consisted when entire of a large central closed hall or gudhamandapa with three entrances each protected with a deep lofty porch and the shrine “ the sanctum sanctorum “ which stood upon the west side of the hall having a broad pradakshina or circumambulatory passage around it The interior of the temple having being used as a mosque the Muhammadans re-erected many of the fallen pillars roughly rebuilt the dome and strengthened the cracked lintels with roughly constructed arches beneath them <br /> Oriental and India Office Collection British Museum Downloaded from the British Museum Website by user Fowler fowler 14 11 19 March 2007 UTC 2011-07-25 http //en wikipedia org/wiki/File Ruins_somnath_temple jpg D H Sykes PD-old-100 Original upload log page en wikipedia Ruins_somnath_temple jpg 2007-03-19 14 11 Fowler fowler 852×640× 289712 bytes <nowiki> The Somanatha Temple from the west Somnath Prabhas Patan Photograph of the Somanatha Temple at Somnath Prabhas Patan in Gujarat from the west from the Archaeological Survey of India taken by D H Sykes in c 1869 Prabhas Patan is an important H</nowiki> Uploaded with UploadWizard Somnath | ||||
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