Also, The High Court noted that the Babri Mosque Masjid was not built on vacant land and the excavated underneath structure was not Islamic in nature.
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10 Facts About Babri Mosque
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Name "Babri Mosque Masjid" comes from the name of the Mughal emperor Babur, who is said to have ordered its construction.
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The Babri Mosque followed the architectural school of Jaunpur Sultanate.
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The sandstone used in building the Babri Mosque had resonant qualities which contributed to the unique acoustics.
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Babri Mosque recorded the fact of Brahmins recording the names of pilgrims.
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Babri Mosque "emphatically attributed it to Aurangzeb, and Babur's name is carried by a few persons", states writer Kishore Kunal.
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Babri Mosque's report was never published but partly reused by Montgomery Martin later.
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Babri Mosque agreed that the mosque was built on the land considered sacred by the Hindus, but ordered maintenance of status quo, since it was "too late now to remedy the grievance".
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Babri Mosque suggested that the Indian National Congress leaders, including prime minister P V Narasimha Rao and home minister S B Chavan, had ignored warnings about the demolition for deriving political benefits.
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The Court observed that archaeological evidence from the Archaeological Survey of India shows that the Babri Mosque Masjid was constructed on a "structure", whose architecture was distinctly indigenous and non-Islamic.
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