Timeline of the Ayodhya debate

This Timeline supplements the article Ayodhya debate.

1528Babur may have built the mosque in 1528, or he may only have renovated the building, subsequent to the demolition of the Rama temple. 1767Joseph Tieffenthaler records that Hindus are worshipping and celebrating Ramanavami at the site of the mosque. [1] The earliest suggestion that the Babri Masjid is in proximity to the birthplace of Rama was made by the Jesuit priest Joseph Tieffenthaler, whose work in French was published in Paris in 1788. It says that "Emperor Aurangzeb got demolished the fortress called Ramkot, and erected on the same place a Mahometan temple with three cuppolas. Others believe that it was constructed by Babar 19th centuryThe Hindus of Ayodhya retained the tradition to worship Rama on the Ramkot hill, and always returned to the site. According to British sources, Hindus and Muslims used to worship together in the Babri Mosque complex in the 19th century until about 1855. P. Carnegy wrote in 1870: "It is said that up to that time [viz. the Hindu-Muslim clashes in the 1850s] the Hindus and Mohamedans alike used to worship in the mosquetemple 1858The Muazzin of the Babri mosque says in a petition to the British government, that the courtyard had been used by Hindus for hundreds of years 20th centuryThe Hindus claim that the Babri Mosque was not used by Muslims since 1936, and that the Hindus took over the unused mosque in 1949