The dispute stems from a claim that the Mughal-era mosque was built after demolishing a historic temple, Harihar Temple.

Shahi Jama Masjid management committee president Zafar Ali said that it had written to the Archaeological Survey of India ...

The Uttar Pradesh government told the Supreme Court that the well near Sambhal’s Shahi Jama Masjid is public property and not ...

Ahead of Ramzan, the Shahi Jama Masjid management committee in Sambhal district has formally approached the Archaeological ...

The Sambhal administration in Uttar Pradesh has stated that no work should be carried out on the Shahi Jama Masjid without ...

The Court Commissioner, Ramesh Singh Raghav, is expected to submit the survey report concerning the claim that Sambhal’s Jama Masjid was originally the Harihar Mandir. The report will likely be ...

Apart from Hindu puranas (scriptures), even the Ain-i-Akbari written by Mughal emperor Akbar's court chronicler Abul Fazal mentions there was a Hari Mandal temple in Sambhal, which was a Vishnu ...

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Sambhal violence update ... The survey was linked to a petition claiming that a Harihar temple once stood at the mosque’s site, triggering tensions in the area. Additional District Judge ...

Sambhal has been tense since November 19 when a court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid was carried out following claims that a Harihar temple previously stood at the site. On November 24 ...

Credit: PTI Tension had been brewing in Sambhal since November 19, when the Jama Masjid was first surveyed on the court's orders following a petition claiming that a Harihar temple once stood at ...

said that "the truth of Sambhal, Mathura and Kashi must come out". His remark comes against the backdrop of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's comment that the rising temple ...