{"id":20608,"date":"2024-02-09T03:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=20608"},"modified":"2024-02-09T03:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:33:30","slug":"babars-demolition-of-the-ram-janmbhoomi-temple-complex-the-original-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2024\/02\/09\/babars-demolition-of-the-ram-janmbhoomi-temple-complex-the-original-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar\u2019s Demolition of the Ram Janmbhoomi Temple Complex: The Original Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>INDIA, January 16,2024 (Hindudvesha): To the Western world, an iconic image of Islamic aggression is the conversion of the Hagia Sophia \u2013 Eastern Christendom\u2019s greatest church \u2013 into a mosque by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet. It was his first act upon entering the conquered city of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1493 CE. It is relatively unknown in the Western world that a mere 35 years later, in 1528 CE, his fellow Turk \u2013 Zahir ud-din Babar, the founder of the Moghul empire in Bharat and a descendant of Tamerlane \u2013 demolished one of Hindu Dharma\u2019s greatest temple complexes, and erected a mosque in its place, which is known in Bharat as the Babri Masjid (Babar\u2019s mosque).<br><br>In northern Bharat, which was under Islamic rule for a longer period of time, hardly any temple has survived the Islamic period. Through the centuries of brutal Islamic rule over Bharat, thousands of Hindu temples were destroyed, and mosques were built at many sites. In northern Bharat, which was under Islamic rule for a longer period of time, hardly any temple has survived the Islamic period. Among the temples destroyed were the three greatest temples of Hindu Dharma \u2013 those dedicated to Shri Ram, Shri Krishna, and Shankar, at Ayodhya, Mathura, and Benaras (Varanasi), respectively.<br><br>Much more at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hindudvesha.org\/babars-demolition-of-the-ram-janmbhoomi-temple-complex-the-gloating-muslim-accounts\/?utm_source=brevo&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletter%209&amp;utm_medium=email\n\">https:\/\/hindudvesha.org\/babars-demolition-of-the-ram-janmbhoomi-temple-complex-the-gloating-muslim-accounts\/?utm_source=brevo&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletter%209&amp;utm_medium=email<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIA, January 16,2024 (Hindudvesha): To the Western world, an iconic image of Islamic aggression is the conversion of the Hagia,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20616,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions\/20616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}