Babri Mosque
26.79556482.19445Koordinaten: 26 ° 47 ' 44 "N, 82 ° 11' 40" E
The Babri mosque in Ayodhya is an India built in 1528 by order of Babur mosque. It was built on the foundations of a previously standing there and destroyed by the Muslim conquerors Hindu temple. According to the legend, which is documented since the 19th century, is in this place 900,000 years before Rama, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, have been born. In riots that accompanied the destruction of the mosque in 1992, 2,000 people were killed.
Controversies between Hindus and Muslims
In the night of 22 to December 23, 1949 presented members of the Hindu Mahasabha in the mosque on the images of Rama and his wife Sita. The general public may enter the mosque was prohibited. On January 16, 1950, the Hindu Mahasabha successfully fought a civil action by the free access to the mosque. The court issued a preliminary injunction, according to which the Hindu Götterbildnisse may not be eliminated, and the worship of this Götterbildnisse must be granted. This day is defined then later court as a day of "status quo".
Destruction of the mosque
The mid-1980s took Rashtriya Svayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP) on the demand of the final handover of the site of the Babri Mosque at the Hindus. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ) passed an identical resolution on 9 and 10 June 1989. On August 14, 1989 verdict, the Supreme Court of Uttar Pradesh that the ownership of the Babri Mosque and the "status quo" may be changed by any party.
On November 9, 1989, at the end of a months- long nationwide program of the VHP, the foundation stone for the new building of the temple Ram - Janmabhumi temple on the land site of the Babri Mosque. The Babri Mosque was first stormed October 30, 1990 by volunteers of the VHP and the RSS. On December 6, 1992, 100,000 volunteers of the RSS, VHP and the BJP gathered in Ayodhya and destroyed the mosque. Thereafter, a number of politicians was arrested and banned organizations involved. The central government acquired on 7 January 1993 the entire area of the former Babri Mosque. The worship to the worship of Rama and Sita has now been produced in court again in a temporary temple. This service takes place since that day under the highest security. Muslims from entering the premises was prohibited.
A reconstruction of the mosque at the same location has since been prohibited by the court. The circumstances of the destruction of the mosque were target of an investigation of the secret service, who accused 42 people of the conspiracy. A commission of inquiry set up by the government meets since 1993, so far without result.
Policy Implications
The assassins, who, several luxury hotels and other public places raided on 26 November 2008, at the Mumbai attacks and inflicted the death of 174 people, gave in a TV message to, involve, inter alia revenge for the destruction of the Babri Mosque to want.