Hindu devotees celebrate inauguration of new temple in Ayodhya

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India on Monday (Jan 22) marked the consecration of a grand temple to the Hindu god Lord Ram on a site believed to be his birthplace in a celebratory event in the city of Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India.  Hindu devotees gathered to celebrate and watch a laser show after the consecration led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 India on Monday, January 22, marked the consecration of a grand temple to the Hindu god Lord Ram

00:08 on a site believed to be his birthplace in a celebratory event.

00:13 Hindu devotees gathered to celebrate and watch a laser show after the consecration led by

00:18 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

00:21 "I don't feel like leaving this place. I feel like staying here. I don't want to go home.

00:31 Ramlala has been seated at the Ajotya Ram Temple. We are very happy. We have been here since

00:36 8th. We have been here since 8th. We don't want to go home. We want to stay here. We

00:41 are very happy. Very happy."

00:42 "My heartbeats have increased. We had no hope that we would be able to see him like

00:46 this. I have come to this place. I cannot express it in words. You can say that you

00:53 are emotional, but you cannot express your emotions. That is the feeling inside."

00:58 For decades, the temple site in the city of Ajotya was bitterly contested by Hindus and

01:03 minority Muslims, leading to nationwide riots in 1992 that killed 2,000 people.

01:10 India's Hindus say the site is the birthplace of Lord Ram and was holy to them long before

01:15 Muslim mughals raised a temple at the spot to build the Babri Masjid, or mosque, in 1528.

01:23 In 2019, the Supreme Court handed over the land to Hindus and ordered allotment of a

01:29 separate plot to Muslims where construction of a new mosque is yet to begin.

01:37 "The work that our ancestors, for the past 500 years, were not able to do, we are experiencing

01:46 heaven while living by seeing you."

01:51 The temple opens to the public on January 23rd, and its management expects 100,000

01:57 visitors each day for the next few months.

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