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KOLKATA, India (RNS) — Last Eid, 49-year-old Partha Sarathi Basu added a fresh coat of paint to the Amanati Mosque in the Barasat district of Bengal, 15 miles north of Kolkata in eastern India.
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday approved white washing and painting in outer walls of Sambhal’s Jama Masjid. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has been given a week’s time to ...
Hindu activist groups, mostly linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, have claimed that several mosques in India were built over Hindu temples centuries ago during the Muslim ...
A Hindu group secured a court order to perform prayers inside the premises of a centuries-old mosque in the Indian city of Varanasi on Thursday, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi consecrated ...
The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is ...
Noori Masjid, in Bihar, India, after 30 years underwater, video shows. Screengrab from Manmauji Baba's YouTube video An abandoned mosque resurfaced from the bottom of a shrinking reservoir in ...
The long-awaited consecration of the Ram Mandir, a grand Hindu temple in Ayodhya, northern India, will take place ... snack shop beneath the mosque, tells The Art Newspaper that he has worked ...