VARANASI, India — On a recent Friday afternoon in this holy city in northern India, scooters, pedestrians and cycle rickshaws jostled for space on a street leading to the city's most famous Hindu ...

STORY: Sohan Lal Arya is in the fight of his life. The 72-year-old is one of dozens of activists in the Indian city of Varanasi who want to turn its oldest mosque into a Hindu temple. Arya has been ...

Associated Press file photo An Aerial view shows Gyanvapi mosque, left, and Kashiviswanath temple on the banks of the river Ganges in Varanasi, India, Dec. 12, 2021. An Indian court on Thursday ruled ...

An aerial view shows Gyanvapi mosque, left, and Kashiviswanath temple on the banks of the river Ganges in Varanasi, India, on Dec. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File) LUCKNOW, India (AP) — ...

A Hindu group secured a court order to perform prayers inside the premises of a centuries-old mosque in the Indian city of Varanasi on Thursday, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi consecrated a ...

An aerial view of the Gyanvapi mosque, left, and the Kashi Viswanath temple on the banks of the river Ganges in Varanasi, India, Dec. 12, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh On February 1, ...

Members of a Hindu priests' family started praying at a cellar in the basement of Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque after a district court yesterday ordered the administration to unseal the premises, 30 ...

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Both faith communities have long shared this sacred city. But some Hindus have taken legal action over a mosque they claim holds idols of Hindu... A Hindu-Muslim dispute tests centuries of interfaith ...