Gyanvapi Mosque

The Gyanvapi Mosque is located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was constructed by Aurangzeb c. 1678, a decade after his demolition of an old Shiva temple. The site is under a decades-old litigation, which gained momentum in 2022 after some Hindu women sought the right to worship on the outer wall of the mosque complex. Previously, until 1993, the Hindu devotees were allowed to worship there in Chaitra Navaratri. The Gyanvapi mosque stands adjacent to the redeveloped Kashi Vishwanath Temple complex.