Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took centre stage Wednesday at a ceremony for the foundation of a Hindu temple at a flashpoint site that has sparked some of India's worst sectarian violence. The new temple in Ayodhya will be built on the ruins of a mosque destroyed by a mob of Hindu zealots in 1992, which triggered a wave of religious violence that left around 2,000 people dead across India. A new temple has been a long-standing demand of Modi's Hindu nationalist BJP, and a court ruling in November clearing the way for its construction was a key victory for the party's supporters. "Not only the mankind, the entire universe, all the birds and animals, are enthralled by this golden moment," chanted the main priest at the ceremony in northern India carried live on national television. abh-stu/fox