{"id":22343,"date":"2018-11-11T21:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=22343"},"modified":"2021-10-26T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T07:50:14","slug":"temple-discovered-upon-demolition-of-a-mosque-in-karnataka-no-it-is-an-artists-digital-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/temple-discovered-upon-demolition-of-a-mosque-in-karnataka-no-it-is-an-artists-digital-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital creation viral as temple discovered upon demolition of mosque in Raichur, Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photograph<\/a> has been shared with the claim that a temple was discovered upon the demolition of a mosque in Karnataka’s Raichur.<\/p>\n

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Alt News has also received verification requests on its WhatsApp helpline number (+91 76000 11160).<\/p>\n

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What is the truth?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The image is actually a digital creation of an artist. At the bottom right of the image, a logo with the text “Chandra Colourist” can be seen. We found a Facebook account named Chandra Colourist<\/a>\u00a0which had posted the same image on May 8, 2016. To a question posed by a commentator on his post about the location of the temple, the artist stated that it was his digital creation.<\/p>\n

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When we reverse-searched this image on Google, we found a photograph clicked by a photographer named Meiqianbao on April 12, 2016 based on which Chandra possibly created the above digital creation. When the two images are examined carefully, many features match.<\/p>\n

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According to the\u00a0American photo stock agency\u00a0Shutterstock<\/a>, the original picture is of Longmen Grottoes -Fengxiang temple stone Buddhas in Luoyang, Henan, China.<\/p>\n

The photo which is currently being used to claim that it depicts the remains of a temple discovered upon the demolition of a mosque in Raichur, Karnataka, is an artist’s digital creation. This brought us to our next question – was a temple ever found on the demolition of a mosque in Raichur?<\/p>\n

Misleading claim viral since 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A Twitter<\/a> handle @umagarghi had tweeted the same image three years ago.<\/p>\n

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Several users have tweeted<\/a> the image with an identical narrative. Ramani Parasuraman<\/a>\u00a0was one of the first to post this image on Facebook.<\/p>\n