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Pooja at Protected Monuments
December 16 , 2023
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- A parliamentary panel has recommended the government to explore the possibility of permitting puja and worship at monuments protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) that have religious significance.
- 3,693 centrally protected monuments and archaeological sites are maintained by the ASI.
- Of that, a little less than a fourth (820) have places of worship.
- The rest are considered non-living monuments where no new religious rituals can be started or conducted.
- The sites that have places of worship include temples, mosques, dargahs and churches.
- According to ASI rules, prayers are allowed at protected sites only if they were “functioning places of worship” at the time it took charge of them.
- The best-known example of a living ASI monument is the Taj Mahal where namaz is held every Friday.
- Other notable living monuments include three mosques in Kannauj, Roman Catholic Church in Meerut, Nila Mosque in Delhi’s Hauz Khas Village and several Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh.
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