Sikh-Muslim Relations Grow Stronger As Sikh Renovate More Than 200 Dilapidated Mosques
When India and Pakistan gained freedom from the British nearly 75 years ago, the Muslim population on the Indian Punjab drastically reducing from 33% to 0.5%.
Most mosques were either destroyed or abandoned.
Now since Pakistan opened a special corridor for Sikhs to visit their holy sites in Pakistan, the goodwill is being returned.
In a number of villages, the majority Sikh population is helping revive mosques left abandoned seven decades ago due to the migration or killing of Muslims.
Last June, a Sikh family from Jitwalkalan village donated its ancestral land to build a mosque for a small number of Muslim families living in the Sikh-dominated village.
The mosque is now in the final stages of construction.
It is one of more than 200 mosques being renovated in the region.
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