Gita Mandir near Somnath

Gita Mandir is one of the sacred temples nearby the Somnath Jyotirlinga temple and dedicated to Lord Shri Krishna and current structure of temple built in the year of 1970 by Birla Group. The Gita Mandir is famous for its depiction of Holy book Bhagavad Gita and wall paintings of Lord Krishna. There are eighteen pillars in the temple and on each pillar is inscribed one chapter of Bhagavad Gita .

As per mythology, Gita mandir is situated at the spot where Lord Krishna took rest after his walk from Bhalka Theerth to Triveni Theerth, before his journey to Neej Dham. This incident happened after he was hit by an arrow, towards the end of Dwapara Yuga and Lord Krishna proceeded to heaven from this place.

This temple is part of a small complex comprising of 3-4 temples, which is very near the Triveni sangam. Actually, this complex is at the end of the road leading from the main Somnath temple to all the smaller but very sacred Hindu temples mentioned of Somnath.

The temple is well maintained, very peaceful and holy place. Must visit temple, when you visiting the Somnath, since many people dont know about this and is not as famous as Somnath temple.

Next to Geetha mandir is Balaramar gufa which u had to get down a few steps to have the dharshan of Lord Balaramar and few more steps down there is a nagar along with Lord Shiva in the lingam form .

Next to it Lord Lakshmi Narayanan mandir. In this temple all the avatars of Lord Vishnu is kept as photos .

There is a seperate shrines for Kashi Vishwanath and Omkareshwar .

64 th Peeth Vallabhacharya’s Mandir and the used household of His was kept inside a room .

The Padukas of Lord Krishna’s in the middle of the temple complex. 

         The Sub Shrines in Golokdham 

              Entrance of Gitamandir 

The main diety Lord Krishna and one could see the pillars engraved with Bhagavad Gita 

                         Baladev Gufa 

                      Lord Balaramar 

    Nagdev and Lord Shiva shrine inside Baladev Gufa 

                        Golokdham 

           Sri Vallabhacharya's room

                        From outside 

                   Inside the room

                Lord Krishnas feet 

               Kashi Vishwanath Mandir 

                Omkareshwar Mandir 

View of Triveni sangam from Golokdham 

        Lord Lakshmi Narayanan Mandir 



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