Thread by @mAbhinav_pandey

The Islamic rule in India robbed off India from some it's most precious treasures in terms of Temples and knowledge centers. The towering temples that once dotted our entire nation were pulled to the ground. North India was almost completely robbed off it's temples and South 1/n

India was a bit lucky in this case due to geography. Temple materials were used to construct Islamic Dargahs, Mosques, Khanqahs, Mazars, Tombs. Some of the Islamic structure stand directly on top of the destroyed temple sites. 2/n

Remember not only Hindu temples but Buddhist sites and Jain temples were also destroyed by Muslim invaders. So the entire Dharmic society suffered as a whole.
The temples destroyed range in thousands and thousands but I'll only point to major ones here. 3/n

The Martand Sun Temple Kashmir
Perhaps ascintillating piece of architecture this temple could have awed everyone who saw it.It was made by King Lalitaditya in around 5th Cen A.D. and it was destructed by Muslim ruler Sikander ButshikanThe temple now lies in ruins. Before & afte

The Ram Janmabhoomi Temple Ayodhya
Some say that the Temple of Lord Ram at Ayodhya was pulled to the ground by Babur but some believe that the temple was destroyed by previous Islamic rulers as the mosque structure does not belong to that era however it is doubtless that

a temple existed and people from centuries used the site to worship Lord Ram.
With strong archaeological evidence now available a large temple base was found at the Babri Masjid site.

The Kashi Vishwanath Varanasi
Another magnificent temple that dotted the ghats of Varanasi was pulled down by the Mughal emporer Aurangzeb and on top of it the Gyanvapi mosque was built. Marxist historians have come out with almost a movie like explanation for the destruction

that a queen was harassed by the priests and that made Aurangzeb to destroy the temple which is a lie.Thousands of temples in Varanasi alone were destroyed and the Vishwanath being the most important one as it is thousands of years old.
The Gyanvapi Mosque on top of the Temple

The Krishna Janmabhoomi Temple
The Krishna Janmbhoomi temple was also destroyed by emperor Aurangzeb and a Dargah was built above the Keshava Deo Temple. It was a majestic temple and still can be seen from miles away.

The Quwwut-ul Islam mosque constructed by ruins of Temples
It is in the Qutub Minar complex in Delhi and this Mosque is called the "Quwwat-ul-Islam" Mosque or the "Might of Islam". It was built by using the ruins of 27 Hindu and Jain Temples which were destroyed to the ground

during the Islamic rule of India. It is said the Temples were built during the rule of Prithviraj Chauhan and rule of Tomars. The inside of the mosque.

Broken and defaced sculptures inside the mosque made up of temple ruins.
There is stone installed by ASI that proudly states the fact that this site was actually made by the ruins of temple.

Temples in Hampi after the fall of Vijaynagar empire
When the Vijaynagar empire fell after the Battle of Talikota havoc rained in Hampi the capital city of the great empire for months. The major structures be it religious or civil were set ablaze or pulled to the ground by the

Muslim armies. Entire population was massacred and no one was spared.
Many Many temples were destroyed and only those which were large and strong were able to survive this holocaust and iconoclasm perpetrated by Islamic armies.
The ruins of the Achutaraya Temple in Hampi