{"id":7158,"date":"2023-07-23T20:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/varanasis-gyanvapi-mosque-survey-by-asi-to-begin-today-says-official\/%e0%a4%8f%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b5\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T19:18:46","slug":"varanasis-gyanvapi-mosque-survey-by-asi-to-begin-today-says-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/?p=7158","title":{"rendered":"Varanasi&#8217;s Gyanvapi Mosque Survey by ASI To Begin Today, Says Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-09\/6tbusq7o_gyanvapi-mosque-650_625x300_13_September_22.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Varanasi's Gyanvapi Mosque Survey To Begin Today, Says Official\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Varanasi's Gyanvapi Mosque Survey To Begin Today, Says Official\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Varanasi's Gyanvapi Mosque Survey To Begin Today, Says Official\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-09\/6tbusq7o_gyanvapi-mosque-650_625x300_13_September_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-07-24T00:19:51+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=713216&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/23072023_n_Gyanvapi_New_109206_61115_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T2M30S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-09\/6tbusq7o_gyanvapi-mosque-650_625x300_13_September_22.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=650,height=400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=713216&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Gyanvapi mosque survey: The ASI has to submit the report to the district court by August 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>A survey of Varanasi&#8217;s Gyanvapi mosque by the Archaeological Survey of India will begin Monday morning, the district magistrate has said. The survey &#8211; ordered by a local court on Friday &#8211; will begin early in the morning. It will extend to all areas except the sealed &#8220;wuzukhana&#8221; where a structure that Hindu litigants claimed to be a &#8216;Shivling&#8217; \u2013 a relic of Lord Shiva &#8212; was discovered during a survey in 2022. The ASI has to submit the report to the district court by August 4.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s order came in response to a petition by a group of women who claim the mosque was built over a Hindu temple. The women claim that ancient idols of Hindu gods and goddesses are located inside the mosque and only a scientific survey can reveal the truth.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the Supreme Court had deferred the &#8220;scientific survey&#8221;, including carbon dating, of a &#8220;Shivling&#8221; that was said to have been found at the Gyanvapi mosque complex during a videographic survey conducted last year. The court had also ordered that the &#8216;wazukhana&#8217; area be sealed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Allahabad High Court directed the ASI to conduct a scientific survey of the structure that Hindu petitioners claimed is a &#8220;Shivling&#8221;. The Gyanvapi mosque authorities had said the structure is a part of a fountain in the &#8220;wazukhana&#8221;, where people perform ablutions before offering namaz.<\/p>\n<p>In September last year, the Varanasi district judge had dismissed a challenge by the mosque committee that argued that the case by the women has no legal standing.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s constituency, the Gyanvapi mosque is one of the several mosques the right wing believes were built on the ruins of Hindu temples.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the three temple-mosque rows, besides Ayodhya and Mathura, which the BJP raised in the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/varanasis-gyanvapi-mosque-survey-by-archaeology-body-asi-to-start-tomorrow-official-4234783\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Gyanvapi mosque survey: The ASI has to submit the report to the district court by August 4. New Delhi: A survey of Varanasi&#8217;s Gyanvapi mosque by the Archaeological Survey of India will begin Monday morning, the district magistrate has said. The survey &#8211; ordered by a local court on Friday &#8211; will begin early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}