List Of Hindu Temples Converted To Mosques

We give below, state-wise and district-wise, the particulars of Muslim monuments which stand on the sites and/or have been built with the materials of Hindu temples, and which we wish to recall as witnesses to the role of Islam as a religion and the character of Muslim rule in medieval India. The list is the result of a preliminary survey. Many more Muslim monuments await examination. Local traditions which have so far been ignored or neglected have to be tapped on a large scale. We have tried our best to be exact in respect of locations, names and dates of the monuments mentioned. Even so, some mistakes and confusions may have remained. It is not unoften that different sources provide different dates and names for the same monument. Many Muslim Babas are known by several names, which create confusion in identifying their mazãrs or dargãhs. Some districts have been renamed or newly, created and a place which was earlier under one district may have been included in another. We shall be grateful to readers who point out these mistakes so that they can be corrected in our major study. This is only a brief summary.
It should be kept in mind that the list below doesn’t include all the temples destroyed by Muslims and which were converted to mosques. The below is the list of mosques and Darghas where evidences exists of having been made after destroying the temples at
these locations. In many mosques, Muslim rulers were able to eradicate all signs of temples, and hence not given in below list.
Anyone is free to visit the below list of mosques and see the remnants and materials of Hindu temples used in their construction. Archaeological Survey of India should conduct an excavation of below mosques to find out more about the ancient temples in these
locations and possible mass graves around the mosque sites.
BIHAR:
BHAGALPUR DISTRICT
Bhagalpur
UP:
AGRA DISTRICT
Agra
MATHURA:
Deoband
MADHYA PRADESH:
BETUL DISTRICT
Pattan
MAHARASHTRA:
I. AHMADNAGAR DISTRICT
Amba Jogi
Taltam Fort
GUJARAT:
AHMADABAD DISTRICT
Ahmadabad
Materials of temples destroyed at Asaval, Patan and Chandravati were used in the building of this Muslim city and its monuments. Some of the monuments are listed below:
While direct evidences are available only for a handful of cases, but not for all of the above mentioned mosques and dargahs as constructed by destroying Hindu Temples – as in most of the cases Islamists succeeded in removing all traces of Temples from the mosques. In such cases only an excavation by ASI can reveal the destroyed temples. While muslims ask for rebuilding the illegal mosque in Ayodhya, why should not Hindus demand the reconstruction of the destroyed temples of Bharat?
Source: Sita Ram Goel
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