MUZAFFARNAGAR: About a kilometre into the road that results in Laddhewala in Muzaffarnagar town, a grimy signpost welcomes visitors to this small, nondescript locality. The lanes quickly get started getting narrower, about 4-foot-wide, between rows of concrete properties. In one sleepy corner of an alleyway, cramped between two structures, is a solitary temple left behind by its Hindu families someday within the early 1990s, put up the Babri Masjid demolition.
Twenty six years later, this shrine remains to be maintained by its Muslim neighbours, who blank it day-to-day, whitewash it each and every Diwali and offer protection to it from squatters and stray animals. Meharbaan Ali, 60, a resident of Muslim-dominated Laddhewala, nonetheless recalls the days when the Hindu households had left the world within the aftermath of communal clashes. “Jitender Kumar was once considered one of my closest pals. I tried to stop him from leaving, despite the strain. But he left nonetheless, in conjunction with many different households, with the promise that they would be back some day. Since then, citizens here have been caring for the temple,” he mentioned.
There are round 35 Muslim households residing within the locality and many of them, like Ali, are hopeful of the go back in their Hindu neighbours. Locals mentioned that round 20 Hindu households had been residing here at that time and the temple was once built someday round 1970. “The shrine is incessantly cleaned and its partitions periodically painted. We want them to come back and take control of it,” mentioned Zaheer Ahmad, any other local.
Nadeem Khan, a former local municipal ward member, mentioned, “Locals pool in money ahead of Diwali annually to get it whitewashed. They make it some extent to stay it blank on a daily basis.” The temple, then again, does no longer have an idol. “There was one prior to 1992. When the households left, they took away the idol with them too,” added Ahmad, who lives next to the shrine. The temple nowadays is looked after by citizens Gulzar Siddiqui, Pappu Bhai, Kayyuam Ahmed, Naushad, Zahid Ahmed and Maksood Ahmed.
“No Hindu circle of relatives lives here but if we let anyone harm their place of worship, they will lose self assurance in us. We don't need that to happen which is why we glance after the shrine,” mentioned Siddiqui. TOI had previous reported how a 59-year-old Hindu mason in Muzaffarnagar’s Nanheda village has been caring for a 120-year-old mosque there. The village, positioned round 40km from the district headquarters, does no longer have a unmarried Muslim circle of relatives.For 26 yrs, Muslims have looked after this temple
Twenty six years later, this shrine remains to be maintained by its Muslim neighbours, who blank it day-to-day, whitewash it each and every Diwali and offer protection to it from squatters and stray animals. Meharbaan Ali, 60, a resident of Muslim-dominated Laddhewala, nonetheless recalls the days when the Hindu households had left the world within the aftermath of communal clashes. “Jitender Kumar was once considered one of my closest pals. I tried to stop him from leaving, despite the strain. But he left nonetheless, in conjunction with many different households, with the promise that they would be back some day. Since then, citizens here have been caring for the temple,” he mentioned.
There are round 35 Muslim households residing within the locality and many of them, like Ali, are hopeful of the go back in their Hindu neighbours. Locals mentioned that round 20 Hindu households had been residing here at that time and the temple was once built someday round 1970. “The shrine is incessantly cleaned and its partitions periodically painted. We want them to come back and take control of it,” mentioned Zaheer Ahmad, any other local.
Nadeem Khan, a former local municipal ward member, mentioned, “Locals pool in money ahead of Diwali annually to get it whitewashed. They make it some extent to stay it blank on a daily basis.” The temple, then again, does no longer have an idol. “There was one prior to 1992. When the households left, they took away the idol with them too,” added Ahmad, who lives next to the shrine. The temple nowadays is looked after by citizens Gulzar Siddiqui, Pappu Bhai, Kayyuam Ahmed, Naushad, Zahid Ahmed and Maksood Ahmed.
“No Hindu circle of relatives lives here but if we let anyone harm their place of worship, they will lose self assurance in us. We don't need that to happen which is why we glance after the shrine,” mentioned Siddiqui. TOI had previous reported how a 59-year-old Hindu mason in Muzaffarnagar’s Nanheda village has been caring for a 120-year-old mosque there. The village, positioned round 40km from the district headquarters, does no longer have a unmarried Muslim circle of relatives.For 26 yrs, Muslims have looked after this temple
For 26 yrs, Muslims have taken care of this temple
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September 17, 2018
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