Alexander Cunningham, who was commissioned as Director-General of ASI in 1871, presented a detailed account of the mosque in ‘Four Reports Made During the Years, 1862-63-64-65’. He mentioned that upon inspecting the site, he found that it was built with the ruins of many Hindu temples
As per Mishra's report, inside the disputed structure that the Muslim side claims to be a mosque, there are stone carvings of Hindu Gods and Goddesses on the North-Western side of the central part, just outside the barricading
Interestingly, 5 Hindu women namely Laxmi Devi, Rakhi Singh, Sita Sahu, Manju Vyas, and Rekha Pathak filed the petition in the Varanasi court on 18 August 2021 seeking permission to worship the deities of Shringar Gauri, Lord Ganesh, Lord Hanuman, and Nandi regularly, as well as barring opponents from harming the statues inside the disputed Gyanvapi structure
When British architect, planner and cartographer James Princep surveyed the city of Kashi extensively, with an idea to restore the 'Gyanwapi Mosque' built by Aurangazeb, he started off by documenting the structures in the precinct
If the survey finds the existence of a Hindu temple structure inside the Gyanvapi compound, which would naturally be more than 100 years old, it could be declared an ancient monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958, and therefore, exempt from the Places of Worship Act
A Wuzukhana is a place where people wash their hands and feet before offering namaz. It has significance in Islam as it is a place where dirt from the body is washed out before worshipping God
The chariots are pulled through the streets around the temple. The 10-day festival of Meenakshi temple and the week-long festival of Kallazhagar temple converged at the banks of Vaigai to bring Shaiva and Vaishnava schools of thought together
The Jagannath Temple Act (1960) of the Odisha government states that the Ratna Bhandar should be audited every 3 years. But no assessment has been done after 1978. An RTI reply in 2021 had cast doubts on the assessment on 1978 too because the district treasury reportedly had no records of Ratna Bhandar keys since 1970
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