Ram Janmabhoomi- History, Facts and Trust Donation Name

Ram Janmabhoomi is the name given to the Place that is supposed to be the birthplace of Lord Rama. Lord Rama believed to be the seventh avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu. The Ramayana says that the place of Rama’s birth is in the city “Ayodhya”. The temple construction will start again after a ground-breaking ceremony on 5 August 2020. After the completion, the Rammandir temple complex will be the world’s third-largest Hindu shrine. Check the Ram Janmabhoomi History, Facts and Trust Donation Name  and other details 

Ram Janmabhoomi History

The political, historical and socio-religious wrangle over the past and location of the Babri Mosque, and whether a previous temple was Pull down or modified to create it, is known as the Ayodhya dispute.

A section of Hindus in India claims that the exact site of Rama’s birthplace is where the Babri Masjid once stood in the present-day Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. According to this theory, the Mughals destroyed a Hindu temple that was in that place and constructed a mosque. People opposed to this theory state that such claims come to light only in the 18th century and that there is no evidence for the spot being the birthplace of Rama.

In 1853, a group of armed Hindu saints belonging to the Nirmohi Akhara takeover the Babri Masjid site and claimed ownership of the structure. Subsequently, the civil administration stepped in, and in 1855, divided the mosque premises into two parts: one for Hindus, and the other for Muslims.

In 1883, the Hindus launched an effort to construct a temple on the platform. When the administration denied them permission to do this, they took the matter to court. In 1885, the Hindu Sub Judge Pandit Hari Kishan Singh dismissed the lawsuit. Subsequently, the higher courts also dismissed the lawsuit in 1886, in favor of the status quo.

In December 1949, Some Hindus claimed that there had Idols of Rama and Sita in the Mosque miraculously appeared. As thousands of Hindu devotees started visiting the place, after that the Government announced the mosque a disputed area and locked the gates. afterward, multiple lawsuits from Hindus, asking for permission to convert the site into a place of worship.

In the 1980s, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other Hindu nationalist groups and political parties begin a campaign to build the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir (“Rama birthplace temple”) at the site. The Rajiv Gandhi government granted Hindus to enter the site for prayers. 

On 6 December 1992, Hindu nationalists teardown the Mosque, resulting in community rampage which leads to over 2,000 deaths.

In 2003, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) searched the site on court orders. The ASI report shows the presence of a 10th-century north Indian style temple underneath the mosque. Muslim groups and the historians supporting them disputed these findings and dismissed them as politically motivated. The Allahabad High Court, however, validate the ASI’s findings. The revealings by the ASI were heavily used as the authentication by the court that the predating structure was a massive Hindu religious building.

In 2009, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its election pronouncement, repeating its promise to construct a temple to Rama at the site.

In 2010, the Allahabad High Court order that the 2.77 acres (1.12 ha) of disputed land be divided into 3 parts, with ​1⁄3 going to the Ram Lalla, ​1⁄3 going to the Muslim Sunni Waqf Board and the remaining ​1⁄3 going to a Hindu religious denomination Nirmohi Akhara.

In 2019, The five judges Supreme Court bench heard the title dispute cases from August to October 2019. On 9 November 2019, the Supreme Court legislated the land to be handed over to a trust to build the Hindu temple. It also ordered the government to give alternate 5-acre land to Sunni Waqf Board to build the mosque.

Ram Mandir Facts

Check the Important Facts about the Ram Mandir.

• The temple construction will start again after a ground-breaking ceremony on 5 August 2020.
• According to the reports, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the ceremony. 
• 7000 temples in a 7 km radius of Hanumangarhi have asked to join in the celebrations by lighting Diyas. 
• Three-day long Vedic rituals will be held ahead of the ground-breaking ceremony, which will revolve around the installation of a 40 kg silver brick as the foundation stone by the Prime Minister.
• The original design for the Ram temple was prepared in 1988 by the Sompura family of Ahmedabad. A new design for Ram temple, with some changes from the original design, prepared by the Sompuras in 2020.
• The shrine will be 235 feet wide, 360 feet long, and 161 feet high.
• The chief architect of the Ram Mandir temple is Chandrakant Sompura.
• The temple complex will have a prayer hall, “a Ramkatha Kunj, a Vaidik Pathshala, a Sant Niwas, and a Yatri Niwas (hostel for visitors)” and other facilities like a museum and a cafeteria.
• After the completion, the temple complex will be the world’s third-largest Hindu shrine.

Ram Mandir Trust Donation Name 

On 5 February 2020, the trust known as Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra was created by the Government of India. It is set up for the construction and management of Shri Ram temple in Ayodhya. The trust is led by Mahant Nrityagopal Das and it has 15 Trustees. Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, said that since 10 days the ground at the site was being leveled and that is when the ancient artifacts were discovered.The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust began the first phase of construction of the Ram Temple in March 2020. During the excavation of the construction site a five-foot Shivaling, seven pillars of black touchstone, six pillars of red sandstone, and broken idols of Devi-Devtas were found. The government has also made the first contribution of INR 1 to the trust to begin it’s work.

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