
In Varanasi, Hindus and Muslims pray in close proximity in one of the most sensitive contested holy sites outside the Middle East.

The Kashi Vishwanath Hindu temple sits across a narrow alley from the Gyanvapi mosque, built in the 17th century on the site of an older Shiva temple.
Shortly after midnight on February 1, Hindu worshippers entered the grotto-like cellar of Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, northern India, and held prayers for the first time in more than three decades. Hours earlier, a district court had approved a legal petition by Hindus to allow the acts of devotion to go ahead.
2月1日午夜剛過,印度教徒進入了位于印度北部瓦拉納西(Varanasi)的吉安瓦皮清真寺洞穴般的地下室,進行了三十多年來的首次祈禱。幾個小時前,地區法院批準了印度教徒的法律請愿,允許他們進行這些虔誠的行為。