After PM Modi laid the foundation stone for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on August 5, 2020, a picture started doing rounds on social media claiming to be that of the Babri Masjid.
The caption translated from Bangla read: “Many people may not have seen the whole Babri Masjid if possible share it.”
We also found the same picture on Twitter with the same claim.
More such posts can be seen here and here.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above post and found it to be false.
On putting the picture through Reverse Image Search, we found the same picture on britannica.com saying it was of Jāmi Masjid (“Congregational Mosque”) in Gulbarga Fort, Karnataka, India.
By using keywords, ‘Gulbarga fort Karnataka India jāmiʿ masjid’, we found more information about the picture on India Netzone, claiming that the palace in the picture is in Raichur District, Karnataka.
On digging further, we also found this picture on Alarmy, a British stock photography company, dated December 16, 2018, that also says, this is Kalburagi fort with the view of Jamia Mosque in Gulbarga, Karnataka.
Hence, the above information proves that the picture in question is of Jama Masjid in Karnataka and not of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
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