Devotees offer prayers in southern cellar of Gyanvapi mosque

Devotees on Thursday offered prayers to deities in the southern cellar of Gyanvapi mosque. The prayers took place following the Madhyan Aarti from outside the barricading. District judge Ajaya Krishna Vishvesha on Wednesday allowed regular worship of Shringar Gauri and other Hindu deities in the southern cellar of Varanasi's Gyanvapi Masjid by a family of priests that used to perform rituals there prior to 1993.