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After the opening of the Ram Temple to public on 23 January 2024, Ayodhya has welcomed 2.4 million visitors in just 12 days. [173] Based on the current visitor numbers, the Ayodhya's Ram temple is projected to become one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the world, surpassing Mecca and the Vatican. [174]
The ceremony involved the pran pratishtha of the primary temple deity, Ram Lalla (childhood form of Rama), also known as Balak Ram, and subsequent opening of the temple for visitors. [3] [4] The temple stands in the ancient city of Ayodhya, which has also been a disputed site of the 16th-century Babri mosque which was destroyed in 1992.
Hindus say the site is the birthplace of Lord Ram, and was holy to them long before Muslim Mughals razed a temple at the spot to build the Babri Masjid, or mosque, in 1528.
Abhiram Das is known for his role in the 1949 placement of the Ram Lalla idol within the Babri Masjid, an event central to the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute. [3] [4] In 1958, Satyendra Das moved to Ayodhya to pursue his studies. He had a brother and a sister. His father supported his decision to pursue a religious life.
Saffron flags are flying in the majority Hindu town of Ayodhya as excited locals prepare to host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the inauguration of a new multimillion-dollar temple ...
After years of agitation, their efforts resulted in an explosion of Islamophobic violence on Dec. 6, 1992, when a Hindu mob numbering at least 75,000 descended on Ayodhya and dismantled the Babri ...
Nritya Gopal Das at the ceremony of unveiling the plaque to lay the foundation stone of Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir, in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh on 5 August 2020 Mahant Nritya Gopal Das (b 1938) is the head of Ayodhya's largest temple, the Mani Ram Das Ki Chavani , and the chief of the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas and Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra ...
The temple, which delivers on a key 35-year-old promise by Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been a contentious political issue that helped catapult the party to ...