Planetarium - Tara Mandir — Attraction in Gujarat

The Tara Mandir is one of the main attractions of Porbandar. Near to bharat mandir and Gayatri Mandir. It built by the donation of Shri Nanjibhai. This is not temple but a Planetarium It is also one among the first two planetariums in India that were started by Shri Jawaharlal Nehru.

Tara Mandir has an overhead round screen with celestial bodies made on it. Here, the stars and planets are projected with special effects and explained in detail. The stars are called Tara in Gujarati language. When you enter inside the place, lights will be off when some people will gathered and projector will start and explains us about stars, moon, sun and other heavenly bodies. So this is one of the famous place...

Don't expect more. There is nothing to see more than experiencing a night sky. They will switch off lights of a domed room and with help of machine create spot with seems like stars in wall. Not usefull in current eletronic age where every this is understandable in youtube and all. Place is full of pilgrimage who are on char dham yatra going from dwarka to somnath and want to have break in between in porbandar. It wad usefull in decade of 60's when there wad nothing understand the sky and stars To Chinese projectors used in diwali makes more spot than...

It was unbelievable that they denied to play the show until they find atleast 25 ppl ! I went from Rajkot to Here & enjoyed visiting porbandar but the natives here were much excited for me to show this Taramandal show. But unfortunately the show got cancelled just because they can't sold 25 tickets of the singal show! Moreover they have set ticket counter far away from the actual show place. It's an recommendation that visit this place only on holidays and muct purchas the tickets from the front of the museum. Else...