File picture of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath | Photo Credit: PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday (September 14, 2024) said that Gyanvapi, which some people “unfortunately” called a mosque, is, in fact, the Hindu deity Lord Vishwanath. “Gyanvapi, which some today unfortunately refer to as a mosque, is actually Vishwanath-Ji … Read more
A road leading to the Gyanvapi Mosque barricaded amid ‘Varanasi Bandh’ called by the Muslim community, in Varanasi, on February 2, 2024 | Photo Credit: PTI The Allahabad High Court on February 2 did not give any immediate relief to the Gyanvapi Masjid committee which had challenged the order of the Varanasi court allowing Hindu … Read more
File picture of the Gyanvapi Mosque complex as seen from the Kashi Vishwanath Temple | Photo Credit: PTI The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Gyanvapi mosque committee to approach the Allahabad High Court against a Varanasi district court’s order that a Hindu priest can perform prayers before idols in a cellar of the mosque. … Read more
Allahabad High Court allowed the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi. | Photo Credit: ANI A district court in Varanasi on Saturday rejected a plea that sought a direction to the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) to undertake a survey of the wazukhana (ablution pond) area, … Read more
Varanasi: Gyanvapi Mosque, in Varanasi, Friday, July 21, 2023. A Varanasi court on Friday ordered a scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque located next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple. | Photo Credit: PTI A team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) arrived here on Sunday to conduct a scientific survey to determine if the … Read more
A view of the site allotted for the construction of mosque at Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh. File | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Members of the Indo-Islamic Culture Foundation (IICF) — the committee formed by the Sunni Central Waqf Board to manage the construction of the mosque in Ayodhya — are planning to request the Uttar Pradesh Government for … Read more
In this May, 2022 file photo, the Gyanvapi Mosque after its survey by a commission, in Varanasi. | Photo Credit: PTI The Archaeological Survey Of India (ASI) on November 21, 2022 told the Allahabad High Court that the agency needed three months’ time to prepare a report on what could be done to determine the … Read more
A mob of more than 200 people ransacked a mosque here in a village assaulting people who were praying inside and threatened to expel them from the village. Police have registered an FIR in the incident that happened in Bhora Kalan village Wednesday night, but no arrests were reported till Thursday evening. According to a … Read more
A court in Mathura has admitted a plea seeking removal of a mosque near Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi Temple in Mathura. A view of Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Temple and Shahi Idgah mosque in Mathura, UP (Image credit: PTI) A court in Mathura has agreed to hear a plea seeking removal of a 17th-century mosque, located next … Read more
Istanbul: President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia open to Muslim prayer as a mosque on Friday after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal. Erdogan made his announcement just an hour after the court ruling was revealed, brushing aside international warnings not to … Read more