In several places in India, claims that mosques were built on the former site of Hindu temples have stoked communal tensions.

To a visitor, Sambhal is chaotic and unremarkable, just one more dot on a crowded map. This otherwise ordinary place has been ...

Sambhal mosque dispute highlights historical, religious, and legal complexities surrounding the Places of Worship Act in ...

A seemingly iron-clad parliamentary mechanism crafted in 1991 to avoid an Ayodhya rerun suffered a body blow following a ...

Locals allege that four persons died in police firing. But the police have claimed that shots were fired by a mob protesting ...

The apex court’s mixed messaging on the Places of Worship Act has allowed claims to be made about the Sambhal mosque and the ...

A darkled future awaits India, and particularly Muslims, as a segment of the judiciary facilitates Hindutva to appropriate ...

Violence erupted early this week in the town of Sambhal when a court-monitored team visited a 16th-century mosque to see if a ...

The oldest surviving Mughal mosque in the country, the Sambhal masjid is one of only three mosques built during Babur's reign ...

An engineered silence weighs heavily on the stillness of the empty streets in the centuries-old town of Sambhal, Uttar ...

The Places of Worship Act of 1991 was brought about to prohibit the conversion of any place of worship and provide the ...

Enacted in 1991, Places of Worship act was meant to preserve the religious character of places of worship as they stood on August 15, 1947. But surveying of Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal has raised ...