When a temple falls, it is more than stone that breaks. It is memory, culture, and a people’s prayer turned to dust.” The ...

Construction crews work on Ram Mandir, a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Ram, being built at the site of the demolished Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya, India, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023.

For many Hindus, the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya is not just a Ram temple, but the Ram temple, located at the site where their deity Ram was born. There is a clear continuum from the events that led up ...

After a while I stood up arguing that since lakhs of people would congregate in Ayodhya on 6 December — and since we were governing the [UP] state, and were no longer in opposition — we ought to act ...

The first detailed descriptions of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir were released on Thursday, showing the lavishly decorated structure that is being built on the site of the Babri Masjid that was ...

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But in 1949, two years after independence, an idol of Ram appeared in the Babri Masjid. Many Hindus believed it was divine intervention (in reality activists snuck it in overnight).

Ayodhya is a town in northern India that, for centuries, was home to the Babri Masjid. The mosque was built in 1527 by a general associated with the Mughal Emperor Babur and was a rare surviving ...

Students paint posters of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ram Mandir, and the Hindu god Ram in Mumbai, India, on January 2, 2024.

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.

After years of legal battles, India’s Supreme Court in November 2019 granted Hindu groups permission to build the Ram Temple at the centuries-old Ayodhya holy site, effectively ending the dispute.

In a nationally-televised event, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to lay the foundation stone today for a temple devoted to the mythical Hindu god Ram on the site of the former Babri Masjid ...