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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Recently, an Indian court ruled that Hindus can worship inside a Gyanvapi mosque located in Uttar Pardesh has not only increased religious tensions in the country but it will further add the miseries ...

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 ...

There are presently at least 18 suits pending in courts across the country concerning 10 mosques and shrines, including the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, the Shahi Eidgah mosque in Mathura and the ...