The Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal is under dispute. The petition filed from the Hindi side in the court claims that it was a temple which was razed by Babur to build a mosque.
A court-ordered survey of Sambhal’s Jama Masjid in UP was conducted amid claims it was once the Hari Har Mandir, an ancient Hindu temple.
A 38-year-old local resident confessed that he attacked the mosque in Kano's remote Gadan village “purely in hostility following prolonged family disagreement".
According to a report published by the Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy (UCOII)in 2017, there were 1,217 Muslim prayer spaces in Italy, of which only six of these were officially mosques.
Several videos which were viral on social media platforms, showed protesters throwing water bottles at officers with helmets and shields outside the blue-domed Najiaying Mosque in Yuxi, a city in Yunnan province.
Notably, the major development came nearly two months after the Mathura court ordered the survey of the Shahi Idgah mosque, which is said to be built on the birthplace of Lord Krishna, by the Archaeological Survey of India.
The matter came into the limelight when Aligarh's RTI activist Keshav Dev Sharma filed an RTI in the Municipal Corporation regarding Jama Masjid. In response to this, the Municipal Corporation said that the 300-year-old Jama Masjid located in Upperkot has been constructed in a public place.
Owaisi said PM Modi should break silence & talk about Supreme Court's 1991 order.
District court has ordered that locks should be broken if the keys are not available to access certain areas of the complex for the survey.
After hearing the plea this morning to change the court commissioner, Varanasi's Civil Judge (Senior Division) Ravi Kumar Diwakar reserved his order for May 9.
Security tightened in Gurugram for Muharram namaz after mosque dispute
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