Co-existing Housing Society

Reading about the ongoing disputes about Eidgah Masjid and Gyanvapi Masjid reminds us all of the Ayodhya dispute and the eventual destruction of Babri Masjid. It reminds us of communal tensions, riots, demolition of holy places that occured and might again occur.

To me, it reminds me of a small structure in a somewhat isolated place in Mumbai, neither known nor visited my many.

The structure houses a dargah, a hindu deity and a cross in the same place.

Let us assume this small structure as a 'co-operative' housing society with 3 neighbouring flats occupied on the ground floor by 3 different religions; (in pic) with the cross outside Christian cross's house, orange flag outside Hindu deity's house and the green flag outside Muslim dargah's house.

I fell in love with this society(place) when I saw it for the first time 4 years ago...but now, it makes me think....

Who(what) must have come first in this building(place) ? Was it the Muslim dargah? Was it the Hindu deity? Or was it the Christian cross?

Let us assume that the dargah came first. The why did the deity or the cross not find some other place or look at some other building as their home? Is it that the deity and the cross, both, had no problem being the dargah's neighbours? But after the dargah found out that a Hindu deity and a Christian cross were his new neighbours, was there no communal tension, no riots, no destruction of anyone's house? How are they okay with having a neighbour of different religion? Is the Hindu deity okay with the smell of non-veg coming from dargah and cross's house?

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