An aerial view shows Gyanvapi mosque, left, and Kashiviswanath temple on the banks of the river Ganges in Varanasi, India, Dec. 12, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh On May 17, 2022 a local ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India’s northern Varanasi city have prayed to their gods in a mosque and a temple that are separated by one wall. Many see it as an ...

Hindutva groups are laying claim to a growing number of sites where Muslim monuments and mosques stand, arguing that temples once stood on the same land. A poster of the Babri Masjid demolition.

The Varansi Court ruled Monday that a suit seeking the right to worship Hindu deities inside Gyanvapi Mosque Complex is not barred by any provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, ...

An Indian court said it will examine a petition from a group of Hindu women seeking the right to pray inside a mosque in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency in northern India. The lawsuit ...

IN A CRAMPED home down a narrow alley in Varanasi, a hard-line Hindu activist flaunts a piece of mosque booty. It is a brick from the 16th-century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, in north India. “I got it on ...

The long-pending dispute over the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula complex in Dhar came up for hearing on Monday before the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

VARANASI, India — On a sweltering Friday afternoon last week, outside an imposing sandstone gate leading to the Gyanvapi mosque, the road teemed with dozens of policemen, some armed with tear gas.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW DELHI (AP) — For nearly three centuries, ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A group of Hindus seeks access to pray inside the Gyanvapi mosque, arguing it was built on top of the ruins of a medieval-era temple that was razed by a Mughal emperor. NEW DELHI (AP) ...