An anti-Mosque campaign in India is a series of claims made by some right-wing Hindu organizations regarding the existence of temples at current mosque sites.
[1][2][3][4] Following the partition of India, two weeks before his assassination, Mahatma Gandhi conducted a six-day fast in part to demand evacuation of mosques occupied by non-Muslims.
[1] In 2024, the Civil Court allowed a Hindu petitioner to take possession of the cellar and initiate worship, following the Archeological Survey of India report that determined the existence of a pre-Islamic structure on the site prior to the construction of the mosque.The joint secretary of the masjid committee, S.M Yasmin was disappointed by the court order stating that “Now we have no hope of justice in this country,” [7] The claim that Babri mosque was built on a site near the birthplace of Rama was first made by Joseph Tiefenthaler, a Jesuit missionary, in 1788 Johann Barnoulli translated his account from French.
[8] In 1853, Bairagis, a group of Hindu ascetics asserted that Babri Mosque was built on the site of the Ramjanmabhoomi temple after it had been destroyed by Babur, this led to a series of clashes between Hindus and Muslims at Ayodhya in 1855.
[1] Shamsi Jama Masjid is a mosque in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh, originally built in the year 1223 by Iltutmish.
The Waqf Atala Mosque challenged this in the Allahabad High Court, asserting it has always been a Muslim place of worship and denying the claims of it being a converted temple.
[14] In October 2024, the anti-mosque protests were organised by Hindutva groups to demand demolition of a 55-year-old mosque situated near the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Uttarkashi district.