Ram Janmabhoomi

The consecration (pran pratishtha) ceremony of the new Ram Mandir took place on January 22, 2024. The event was led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attended by thousands of invited guests. The temple remains under construction, with further phases expected to be completed in the years following.

The Babri Masjid was a 16th-century mosque built in Ayodhya under the Mughal emperor Babur, traditionally believed by many Hindus to occupy the birthplace of Rama. On December 6, 1992, the mosque was demolished by a large crowd of Hindu activists, triggering nationwide communal violence. A decades-long legal battle over title to the site followed, culminating in a 2019 Supreme Court judgment that awarded the land for a Hindu temple.

The temple was designed by the Chandrakant Sompura family of architects, who have previously worked on major temple projects including the Swaminarayan Akshardham complex in Delhi. The building follows the Nagarara style of North Indian temple architecture and is constructed largely of pink sandstone from Bansi Paharpur in Rajasthan. Construction has been overseen by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, established by the Indian government in 2020.

In November 2019, a five-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the disputed 2.77-acre site should be handed over to a government-created trust to build a Hindu temple. The court also directed that an alternative five-acre plot elsewhere in Ayodhya be allotted for the construction of a new mosque. The judgment resolved the title suit that had wound through Indian courts since the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992.