Temples: History, Architecture & Distribution - 2

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Dear Hari Krishna and Ramana, I am more and more interested in the demolished 'masjid' w.r.t. the signs of its preexisting temple features. Perhaps there is some documentation somewhere on this topic (ASI reports?). But I do not have read any.



At this moment I only know about a massive 10th century temple structure under ground, a inscriptional testimony of a temple structure in the 12th century by king Nayachandra, and a demolished structure called with both names Masjid-i Janamsthan and Babri Masjid. Between the last structure which was demolished in 1992 (and which is certainly pre-Mughal) )and the underground 10th century massive temple structure, there is no other structure, which leads me to the conclusion that the demolished structure must be king Nayachandra's temple. And thus Babar ordered its desecration and conversion to a mosque.

Anyway, Babar didn't order the building of the structure named after him from scratch.



The construction of true arches was certainly known in pre-Muslim times as I have demonstrated. But if one wishes to ignore this, at least from the Khilji Sultanate period on, Hindu masons did know the principles and practice.