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A fact from Atala Mosque, Jaunpur appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 15th-century mosque Atala Masjid, Jaunpur, India (pictured) exists at the site of the Atala Devi Hindu temple?

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Atala Temple

@TrangaBellam, does Anna Sloan in her ground-breaking dissertation on the Atala mosque mention that the site never had a Hindu temple?

From this thread,

Alongside stones that could only have been made anew for structural contexts within the mosque, signatures of local Hindu builders dated to the Sharqi period provide convincing evidence that the Atala mosque was constructed from new materials rather than spolia.

So it seems that a conclusion could be drawn, that even if there was a temple at that site (why did Khair al-Din claim there was one which was demolished, if it never existed?), it was either already too dilapidated to have any useful materials, or all the materials were discarded after the demolition of the structure.

Cunningham writes,^[1]

That the site of Jaunpur was occupied by the Hindus at a much earlier period, is also quite certain, as I discovered in the archway of the south gate of the Jami Masjid an inscription of the 8th or 9th century which gives the name of King Iswara Varmma, the conqueror of Chandra Sena of the Vindhya mountains.
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There is not at present a trace of any old Hindu temples standing, for the Muhammadans did their work of destruction with unusual completeness. It has been thought that the arcades may be parts of the old Hindu enclosures un- altered, but this does not appear to me to have been the case;
[...]
I made a very careful examination of the pillars of the Jaunpur Masjids, and I found that a very great number of the square pillars had been cut down by the Muhammadans from round pillars, as shown by the traces of flowers and mouldings which still remain upon them. Where square pillars with indented angles were utilised, their ornamented faces still remain intact. I found also numerous beams with flowered, and diapered, and other, ornaments built into the walls. Other pillars betray their Hindu origin by the presence of socket holes for iron cramps. During the repairs and restoration of the great propylon, numerous Hindu figures were found. Amongst them there is a standing four-armed female statue, 2 feet 10 inches in height, draped from the navel downwards; also a door-jamb with three seated female figures holding trisuls, or tridents, and therefore presumably joginis, or female demons, connected with the worship of Siva.
— Report of Tours in the Gangetic Provinces from Badaon to Bihar, in 1875-76 and 1877-78

^[2] Yuyutsu Ho (talk) 15:01, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

^ Cunningham, Sir Alexander (1880). Report of Tours in the Gangetic Provinces from Badaon to Bihar, in 1875-76 and 1877-78. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. p. 104.
^ Cunningham, Sir Alexander (1880). Report of Tours in the Gangetic Provinces from Badaon to Bihar, in 1875-76 and 1877-78. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. p. 107.

[1] Cunningham, Sir Alexander (1880). Report of Tours in the Gangetic Provinces from Badaon to Bihar, in 1875-76 and 1877-78. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. p. 104.

[2] Cunningham, Sir Alexander (1880). Report of Tours in the Gangetic Provinces from Badaon to Bihar, in 1875-76 and 1877-78. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. p. 107.

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