Gyanvapi Mosque - Wikipedia
WEBThe Gyanvapi Mosque is located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was constructed c. 1678, a decade after Aurangzeb's demolition of a Shiva temple that stood at the site. [1]
Gyanvapi masjid: India dispute could become a religious flashpoint - BBC
WEBMay 17, 2022 · The Gyanvapi mosque is built on the ruins of the Vishwanath temple, a grand 16th Century Hindu shrine. The temple was partially destroyed in 1669 on the orders of Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal...
Evidence through maps: How Gyanvapi mosque was built atop ... - India …
WEBMay 26, 2022 · Prinsep, in his book 'Benares Illustrated, A Series of Drawings', discussed the architecture of the old Vishveshwar temple, the present Gyanvapi mosque and how Mughals under Aurangzeb converted the original structure into a capacious masjid to establish their religious hegemony.
Hindu prayers begin inside India’s Mughal-era mosque after …
WEBFeb 1, 2024 · The Gyanvapi Mosque was built during the Mughal Empire in a city where Hindus from across the country cremate relatives by the Ganges river. Hindu worshippers claim the mosque replaced a temple...
Contested Place of Worship: History and context of the Gyanvapi Mosque ...
WEBMay 21, 2022 · Gyanvapi (meaning 'well of knowledge) is a mosque in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, yanked into limelight for a dispute over its prevailing religious status, notwithstanding its established history. In an India that boasts of secular ethos, there stands a mosque bearing a Sanskritised name.
350 Years of the Gyanvapi Dispute: A Timeline
WEBMay 27, 2022 · Gyanvapi mosque is located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. It is a stone’s throw away from the Kashi Vishwanath temple, built in 1780 by Ahilyabai Holkar, the Queen of Indore. Kashi Vishwanath is a prominent temple dedicated to the Hindu deity Shiva.
Gyanvapi mosque survey resumes amid Muslim side's boycott …
WEBScientific tests of the area under the three domes of Gyanvapi mosque were conducted on Sunday to determine if the 17th-century masjid was constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu...
Gyanvapi mosque dispute becomes a religious flashpoint in India
WEBMay 26, 2022 · The court case involving the 17th century Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, one of Hinduism’s holiest cities, in many ways embodies India’s contemporary religious strife.
India: Gyanvapi mosque row exposes religious tensions
WEBMay 20, 2022 · Three decades after Hindu mobs demolished a historic mosque in Ayodhya in northern Uttar Pradesh state, triggering a wave of communal violence that saw thousands killed, right-wing Hindu...
Yogi Adityanath says Gyanvapi Mosque is actually Lord ... - India …
WEBSep 14, 2024 · Hindus allowed to offer prayers at 'Vyas Ka Tekhana' in Gyanvapi. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday expressed his reservations over Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque being called a Muslim place of worship and said that it is rather a 'temple of Lord Shiva'.
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