Religion
Both Muslim and Hindu religions are found in Charthaval. There are 65% percent Muslims out of the 40,000 total population of the town.Majority of population are Muslim Tyagi,which comprises roughly 55-60% of total population. The town is also home to the Shaikhzada community.
There are many mosques in the town but two are very old. One is situated at Sheikhzadgan Gharki(west) (غركى), known as Jama Masjid Tagayan, was supposed to be built by The Mughal emperor Nader Shah in the 17th century and other is situated in Sheikhzadgan Sharki(east) (شركى), was built in 350 years back, also known as Jama Masjid alias 'amina masjid' Sheikhzadgan (near Hakim Nazar Ahsan).
The world famous University of Islamic Studies Darul Uloom Deoband is just twenty km. away from Charthaval via Rohana village.
There are two Hindu temples:
Thakurdwara was built in the 13th century and later on in 1910 it was repaired by one of the wazir's family member of Mughal Emperor Shahjahan.
On the Muzaffarnagar road there is a temple of Bhairo wherein many Hindus go for worship every day. During the expansion of the temple some place besides was donated by Hakim Sadaruddin the famous Raees and Zamindar of Charthaval in the late 18th century.
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