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Alamgir Mosque
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “mosque built in the 17th century by mughal king aurangzeb in the indian state of uttar pradesh”. Today it says “mosque in varanasi”.
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Alamgir Mosque , Varanasi , also known as Beni Madhav ka Darera and Aurangzeb's Mosque , is a mosque built in the 17th century by Mughal king Aurangzeb in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . . It was built atop the ancient 100 ft high Bindu Madhav (Nand Madho) Temple after its destruction by Aurangzeb in 1682 .1
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “mosque built in the 17th century by mughal king aurangzeb in the indian state of uttar pradesh”. Today it says “mosque in varanasi”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
mosque built in the 17th century by mughal king aurangzeb in the indian state of uttar pradesh
Now
mosque in varanasi
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