The dispute should not be framed as one faith against another, local organisations have said
Residents in Peterborough have been campaigning to stop the city's only Hindu temple from being turned into a mosque.
Bharat Hindu Samaj, the only Hindu temple serving a vast area of eastern England, is embroiled in a High Court battle after a Labour-led council sold the building to an Islamic organisation.
Peterborough City Council put the temple on the open market as part of efforts to repay £500million in debt, despite the temple's trustees believing a £1.3million purchase price had already been agreed upon.
The council selected the Khadijah Mosque, part of the United Kingdom Islamic Mission, as its buyer.
The Bharat Hindu Samaj has served around 14,000 Hindus from across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire for 40 years.
It was founded by families who were expelled from Uganda by dictator Idi Amin in 1972 and has since grown into a community hub offering yoga classes, language lessons, sports clubs and a lunch club for the over-60s.
When the council upheld the decision to sell the temple to the Islamic organisation at a cabinet meeting in February, the Hindu community secured an injunction preventing the sale.
They also launched a GoFundMe campaign that raised £86,000 from donors around the world.
