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"Oh! Sheikh, see the wondrous greatness of my temple in that it became the house of (your) god only after its downfall."
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The Gyanvapi Mosque is a mosque located in Varanasi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The site was originally an ancient Hindu temple of Shiva or Kashi Vishwanath, one of the twelve sacred Jyotirlingas. The mosque was constructed in c. 1678 CE during the reign of the Muslim Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, a decade after he issued a royal decree (firman) in 1669 ordering the destruction of the ancie
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"Sculptures of Hindu deities and carved architectural members were found buried under the dumped soil in cellar S2."
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