Ayodhya, Bakker, quoted in Kishore, Kunal (2016). Ayodhyā revisited. ch 11, and Meenakshi Jain, The Battle for Rama: Case of the Temple at Ayodhya (2017)(p.91)
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“Notwithstanding all the difficulties discussed above, the original location of the Janma-sthãna is comparatively certain since it seems to be attested by the location of the mosque built by Babur in the building of which materials of a previous Hindu temple were used and are still visible. The mosque is believed by general consensus to occupy the site of the Janmasthana. After the destruction of the original temple a new Janmasthana temple was built on the north side of the mosque separated from it by a street.

— Hans T. Bakker

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Hans T. Bakker

About Hans T. Bakker

Hans T. Bakker (born 1948) is a cultural historian and Indologist, who has served as the Professor of the History of Hindusim and Jan Gonda Chair at the University of Groningen. He currently works in the British Museum as a researcher in project "Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State".