Story preview
Video shows the moment the minaret of India’s 600-year-old Ujjain mosque collapsed during demolition work.
Topics in this story
Continue reading on the publisher site for the full article.
Read on publisher →aljazeera.com
News Atlas is free and independent. If it’s useful to you, you can support it with a coffee. ☕ Buy me a coffee
Coverage
Tone
Outlets covering it
3
in the last 3 days
First reported
19 hr. ago
2 outlets since
Countries
2 other outlets reported this story in the last 3 days.
Context from Wikipedia on the organisations, people and places in this story.
Metropolitan city in Madhya Pradesh, India
Ujjain, also known as Ujjayini, is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the fifth-largest city in Madhya Pradesh by population and is the administrative as well as religious centre of Ujjain district and Ujjain division. It is one of the Hindu pilgrimage centres of Sapta Puri famous for the Kumbh Mela (Simhastha) held there every 12 years. The ancient and world famous temple of Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga is located in the center of the city.
More on Wikipedia ↗