The court was responding to a plea from the Gyanvapi mosque committee, which contested orders from the Allahabad High Court and Varanasi court permitting 'puja' in the 'Vyas Tehkhana' or the ...

Over the years, mosque-temple disputes have been strategically politicised, serving as rallying points for parties, and with ...

Apart from the Gyanvapi model, whose top half is designed like a temple, it displays 120 pictures — purportedly of various parts of the mosque that feature Hindu figurines and symbols Devotees carry a ...

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has convened a meeting of its leaders and sadhus at its Kumbh camp on January 24 to discuss “Kashi and Mathura” among other issues, with senior monks clarifying this referred ...

Chandrachud also refused to overturn the order of a civil court in Varanasi to conduct the survey of the Gyanvapi mosque there. Those who watched senior Supreme Court lawyer Dushyant Dave crying ...

Bareilly: The advocate commissioner appointed to survey the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal submitted a 45-page report in a sealed envelope to a local court in Chandausi on Thursday.

For example, a 2022 court order authorizing a video inspection of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi unleashed a flood of copycat cases calling for inspections of various mosques. The litigants argue ...

Varanasi's Gyanvapi Mosque is claimed to have built on the remains of the Kashi Vishwanath temple by some groups. Several petitions have been filed in this regards, and various courts have ordered ...

A 2020 petition seeks to replace Mathura’s Shahi Idgah Mosque with a temple, claiming Aurangzeb destroyed the original shrine ...

The Mathura dispute mirrors the legal tussle in Varanasi, where the Gyanvapi mosque and the Kashi Vishwanath temple are located next to each other.

India is full of mosques established during periods of Islamic rule, between roughly the eleventh and eighteenth centuries. Many Indians believe that Muslim rulers, including the Mughal Empire, often ...