You can easily mistake an old mosque for a temple in the coastal villages of Tamil Nadu. Many mosques built between the 8th and 14th centuries in these villages resemble temple structures, but with Islamic prayer halls. After the Supreme Court verdict granted permission to build the Ram Mandir on the land where the Babri Masjid was demolished, several right-wing groups argued that many mosques in northern India were built on land which originally had temples. But in the southern part of India, it is easy to spot ancient mosques built to resemble temples.