This Kanpur temple, mosque share entry gate and devotees pray together

In Kanpur’s Tatmil chowk - at the heart of the city, sit a Hanuman temple and a mosque that share a common entry door. Devotees from the two communities pray together, in peace.

At a time when the country is witnessing a rise in communal tensions, locals in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur have set a unique example of brotherhood and peace by offering namaaz and prayers inside the same premises.

In Kanpur’s Tatmil chowk - at the heart of the city, sit a Hanuman temple and a mosque that share a common entry door.

Aarti and azaan take place with the cooperation of the two communities. When the state ordered the removal of loudspeakers from mosques, the orders were followed here with mutual understanding.

Devotees who came to offer namaaz say it’s a good move and that they have no problems with it.

“We believe in inclusiveness and we all stay here in peace,” the temple priest told India Today TV.

Both the Hindus and the Muslims clean the premises where, about a hundred years ago, some members of the two religious communities first came together to pray.

Even a century later, this place has kept the tradition of praying together alive. The clashes and the controversies in the other parts of the state and country could not deter them.