🏛️ Historical📍 Heritage🛕 Religious

Modhera Sun Temple

Modhera, Gujarat, India

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Overview

The Solankis' 1026 CE sun sanctuary — equinox light striking the sanctum, a stepped kund of 108 shrines and January's classical dance festival under floodlight.

Why visit: Gujarat's Konark — geometry, dawn worship and a liquid staircase of stone.

History: Built under Bhima I, the same court that raised Rani ki Vav.

Things to do

›Surya Kund steps
›Sabha mandap
›Equinox alignment
›3-D night show

Heritage TourPhotographyDance Festival

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar; dance festival (Jan); equinox days

Entry fee

₹35–600

Est. budget

₹300–700

Duration

Half day

Nearby attractions

Within

0.2 km

📍 Festival

4.3

Sun Temple Dance Festival & Heritage Nights

Modhera, Gujarat

Classical dance under Modhera's floodlit colonnades each January — Uttarardh Mahotsav's bharatanatyam and kathak where Solanki kings watched the sun.

Jan (festival dates)Evening–2 daysExplore

9.7 km

🛕 Religious

4.3

Bahucharaji Shaktipeeth

Becharaji, Gujarat

The third of Gujarat's great goddess trio — Bahuchar Mata on her rooster, patron of the Kinnar community, in a Maratha-built varakhadi-tree shrine.

Oct–Mar; Chaitra Purnima fair2–3 hrsExplore