People are afraid that the action of encroachment will take place at night. That is why people are guarding outside the temple at night.
God usually protects his devotees, but a peculiar situation has arisen in Gir-Somnath in Gujarat. Here, devotees have to wake up overnight to protect the temple of God. Actually, this temple was demolished for the corridor of Somnath temple
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184 years ago, Nawab Rasool Khan met Sompura Brahmin society has been doing the work of ownership, enjoyment and service of the temple for 184 years. During the time of Nawab Rasul Khanji, this temple was assigned to Vasudev Brahmachari Maharaj. It also has written documents. On August 5, a team of Deputy Collector of Veraval came to the temple and has also gone to mark it to demolition it.
People guarding outside the temple.
Action will be taken at midnight only Divya Bhaskar’s team reached the spot for a ground report on this at 12 pm on Monday night. Here the youth and devotees of Sompura Tirtha Purohit Brahma Samaj were guarding the temple. Because they are afraid of breaking the temple. Local people fear that the administration will break this temple at night.
Demolition team put marks outside the temple Temple priest Harsha Acharya told Divya Bhaskar that on August 5, the team of Veraval Deputy Collector came to the temple and marked the place for sabotage and said that this place is to be vandalized.
He asked the priest to handle his belongings and also warned that bulldozers could come anytime. This incident has spread anger in Sompura Brahma Samaj.
The deputy collector got marking outside the temple.
Deputy Collector entered the temple wearing shoes: priests Priest Harsh Acharya further said that there is an unknown fear among the citizens about the deputy collector’s discussion of demolishing the Somnath temple corridor and this temple too. On 5 August 2025, Deputy Collector Vinod Joshi came to the temple with the revenue team and entered the temple wearing shoes and slippers. When I stopped him, he said that it is not a temple, a house and a bulldozer will run on it anytime.
Nawab Rasul Khan handed over this temple to Vasudev Brahmachari Maharaj. Its written document.
This temple is centuries old Jayawardhan Jani, vice president of Sompura Brahma Samaj, said that this temple is centuries old. Dukhharan Maharaj is the child form of Radharaman Dev. This mansion of Radharaman Dev is two storey, in which Thakorji always sits on the second floor.
Lord Shri Radharaman Dev comes to this temple only three times a year and appears to the villagers to see the villagers. These days are Sharad Purnima, Gujarati New Year and Holi Utsav i.e. Phalgun Sud Purnima. The faith of all the people of Prabhas Patan Nagar is associated with this temple.
Computer design of the proposed corridor of Somnath Temple.
Somnath Corridor is being built The corridor is being built for the development of Somnath temple. For this, action has been taken to acquire 384 properties around the temple. Which is being opposed among the local people.
