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The 2019 Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute states that the entire disputed land of area of 2.77 acres be handed over to a trust to build a Hindu temple. It also ordered the government to give an alternative 5 acre land to the Sunni Waqf Board .
Mandal came to prominence with the publication of his book Ayodhya: Archaeology after Demolition in 1994. The book was written in response to two pieces of evidence. In 1990, the archaeologist B. B. Lal had announced that he had discovered pillar bases during his excavation in Ayodhya during 1975–80, next to the Babri Masjid site.
In 1990, after his retirement, he wrote in a RSS magazine [note 3] that he had found the remains of a columned temple under the mosque, [21] [16] [25] and "embarked on a spree of lectures all over the country propagating th[is] evidence from Ayodhya." [16] In Lal's 2008 book, Rāma, His Historicity, Mandir and Setu: Evidence of Literature ...
Babri Masjid 19th century photo by Samuel Bourne Religion Affiliation Islam District Ayodhya Status Demolished Fate Site now occupied by the Ram Mandir temple; succeeded by Muhammad bin Abdullah Masjid Location Municipality Ayodhya State Uttar Pradesh Country India Location in India Geographic coordinates 26°47′44″N 82°11′40″E / 26.7956°N 82.1945°E / 26.7956; 82.1945 ...
The temple's consecration on Jan. 22 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the BJP's latest bid to remake India for Hindus, and Hindus alone.
Dr. Gupta was a prominent scholar who supported the pro-Temple side of the Ayodhya dispute.He argued that there was evidence of a 11th-century temple that lay underneath the masjid, [2] which might have been demolished by Babur (the founder of the Mughal Empire and a Turkic invader hailing from present-day Uzbekistan), since no written record about its demolition exist. [2]
Tens of thousands of Hindus braved biting cold on Tuesday to pray at a new temple to Lord Ram in India's northern city of Ayodhya, a day after its inaugural by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a ...
Ayodhya disputed site map. The Ramayana, a Hindu epic whose earliest portions date back to 1st millennium BCE, states that the capital of Rama was "Ayodhya", which may not be the same as modern Ayodhya [2] [12] According to the local Hindu belief, the site of the now-demolished Babri Mosque in Ayodhya is the exact birthplace of Rama.