An Indian court has weighed in on one of the country’s most sensitive religious disputes by permitting Hindu worshippers to pray inside a mosque in the city of Varanasi. On Wednesday, the court in Varanasi ruled that Hindu worshippers, who claim the Gyanvapi mosque replaced a destroyed temple to the deity Shiva, could pray in the building’s basement. Its verdict ordered district authorities to “make proper arrangements within the next seven days” to facilitate worshippers.
