In Varanasi, Hindus and Muslims pray in close proximity in one of the most sensitive contested holy sites outside the Middle East.
The Kashi Vishwanath Hindu temple sits across a narrow alley from the Gyanvapi mosque, built in the 17th century on the site of an older Shiva temple.
Shortly after midnight on February 1, Hindu worshippers entered the grotto-like cellar of Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, northern India, and held prayers for the first time in more than three decades. Hours earlier, a district court had approved a legal petition by Hindus to allow the acts of devotion to go ahead.
2月1日午夜剛過(guò)，印度教徒進(jìn)入了位于印度北部瓦拉納西(Varanasi)的吉安瓦皮清真寺洞穴般的地下室，進(jìn)行了三十多年來(lái)的首次祈禱。幾個(gè)小時(shí)前，地區(qū)法院批準(zhǔn)了印度教徒的法律請(qǐng)?jiān)福试S他們進(jìn)行這些虔誠(chéng)的行為。