India: Gyanvapi mosque dispute raises concern | DW News

Hindus say the Gyanvapi mosque in the northern Indian city of Varanasi was built on the ruins of a revered Hindu temple. For years, Hindu nationalists have wanted this perceived historical wrong to be righted, by being given the entire property to build a temple.

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[donkeyxote]

DW: tries to show only mosque and aviods temple structure.
Indians: peeche dekho peeche

[vivekpillay]

Only in India, we have to fight for our own land

[reynaldsusain]

Can you built a temple or church in Mecca? Next to Hajj?
Lets practice religion unity in Mecca and Medina!

[Admiralmoti]

In the west we are celebrating the BLM movement by removing past symbols of oppression and colonisation. Why the double standard when it comes to India?

[shubhamjain]

Not only Hindus, they have done it on Jain temples also.

[felixguerrero]

And yet DW will never cover Pakistans ethnic and religious cleansing of Hindus.

[kesumonu]

People who are concerned of minority rights should visit Siwan, Bihar. Per capita Mosque is at least 10 times the per capita Temple. In some localities you can see three mosque by standing at the same place.

[preetamyadav]

Gyanwapi mosque used to be kashi viswanath temple .
It was destroyed by auranzeb 400 years ago .
Even the walls of mosque are made up of hindu temple walls .

[prudhvikrishna]

Can you show a picture of the mosque where we can see the old temple structure still intact in the mosque, as the mosque was built by integrating the left over structure of the temple after destroying it, I wonder why dw has so carefully showed only those parts of the mosque which are not having the temple structure

[VIWA]

Imagine if someone demolished the Kaaba and built a Church or a Synagogue on top of it and that too using it as a foundation stone for another religion’s place of worship………
Now you would get a tinge of the cringe Hindus feel looking at the Mosques in Kashi and Mathura, which are are standing on pillars of our wantonly demolished temples. Even a blind man can touch the wall and tell you that it is an ancient carved temple wall.
It is proudly proclaimed by Aurangzeb how he has broken the most important Hindu places of worship and established Islam on them. Go and read the Mugal historians for proof.
It is time some barbaric atrocities of antiquity are set right, if not in a civil manner (as should be), then by power of our might 💪🏽

[darthashpie]

Imagine fighting for your own land, only in India

[परशुरामभक्त-सग]

U even don't have guts to show it's photograph of the structure that itself reveals it was a temple

[nick]

Well done Hindus....india for hindus..its hindu land...love your faith and culture...Victory for the hindus..

[nepalama]

Can Saudi Arabia allow to construct Church, Synagogue or Temple in Mecca or Medina? Too much discrimination….

[DHT_Goodluck]

Just see the back side of this mosque and you will know..!

[JASHVEER]

Mathura and Kashi are to be reclaimed. Abdul can keep others

[vickidianacoghlan]

Majority of mosques are built on other religious sites.
Respecting other religions isn't in islam ideology.

[perumurugan]

When turkey can do it to a 1000 year old Byzantine church india can do it too

[guruv.k]

Hindu temple has been vandalised in Pakistan recently by peaceful community... I hope DW will report this incident too.... Please don't be biased...

[shriharikulkarni]

Dw not showing that structure fully
Temple walls can be seen on which this Gyanwapi mosque has been built