WALK 1 — “Religions Of Kashi”
Everyone knows this is a Hindu city. Almost no one realises it has also been, for centuries, home to a church built in memory of one of the twelve apostles of Christ, believed to have reached Indian shores by sea in 52 AD. It is the The birthplace of 12 Tirthankaras, one of which is next to the place of Lord Buddha’s first sermon after enlightenment. A market that never had arrive from anywhere, because it was always here. A house where the ninth Sikh Guru, Tegh Bahadur, once stayed seven months and thirteen days — and where the letters left behind are still preserved today. And a mosque built by Aurangzeb on the foundation of the temple he destroyed to build it, a foundation that runs as deep underground as the mosque now stands above it. So faiths. One morning. One city that never made any of them leave.
