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aj Mahal: India monument 'not a Hindu temple'

1 December 2015
From the section India

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Image caption The Taj Mahal is a Unesco World Heritage site

India's government has rejected claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple.

Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said the government had not found any evidence to support the claim.

The lawyers filed a petition in a court last year saying that the monument should be handed over to Hindus.

The Taj Mahal, a 17th Century mausoleum built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, a Muslim, after his wife's death, attracts about 12,000 visitors a day.

Six lawyers belonging to the city of Agra, where the monument is located, had told a court there was "substantial evidence" to prove that the famous monument was originally a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.
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Nehru posted:

aj Mahal: India monument 'not a Hindu temple'

1 December 2015
From the section India

Image copyright Getty Images
Image caption The Taj Mahal is a Unesco World Heritage site

India's government has rejected claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple.

Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said the government had not found any evidence to support the claim.

The lawyers filed a petition in a court last year saying that the monument should be handed over to Hindus.

The Taj Mahal, a 17th Century mausoleum built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, a Muslim, after his wife's death, attracts about 12,000 visitors a day.

Six lawyers belonging to the city of Agra, where the monument is located, had told a court there was "substantial evidence" to prove that the famous monument was originally a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.
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Yes, some of them have nothing better to do. They are just trying to creat trouble. 

They should leave the Taj alone.

FM
yuji22 posted:
Nehru posted:

aj Mahal: India monument 'not a Hindu temple'

1 December 2015
From the section India

Image copyright Getty Images
Image caption The Taj Mahal is a Unesco World Heritage site

India's government has rejected claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple.

Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said the government had not found any evidence to support the claim.

The lawyers filed a petition in a court last year saying that the monument should be handed over to Hindus.

The Taj Mahal, a 17th Century mausoleum built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, a Muslim, after his wife's death, attracts about 12,000 visitors a day.

Six lawyers belonging to the city of Agra, where the monument is located, had told a court there was "substantial evidence" to prove that the famous monument was originally a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.
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Yes, some of them have nothing better to do. They are just trying to creat trouble. 

They should leave the Taj alone.

These jackasses want to start a religious war. They need to go by the train line and see how many people don't have a place to relieve themselves and try to do something about it.

FM

The MUghals were known to tear down Hindu sacred sites and re-use the materials to build mosques. The golden idols were smelted down and made into different artifacts.

From the history of the era, it would not be impossible for the Taj Mahal to be the site of a shiva temple. Shiva was more worshipped than Brahma and Vishnu. The site is an expansive one, like most Temples in India. And was suitable in the landscape(already existed) with the aqueducts for the supply of water. 

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