Editing Iconoclasm (section)

===During the Goa Inquisition===
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Exact data on the nature and number of Hindu temples destroyed by the Christian missionaries and Portuguese government are unavailable. Some 160 temples were allegedly razed to the ground in [[Tiswadi]] (Ilhas de Goa) by 1566. Between 1566 and 1567, a campaign by Franciscan missionaries destroyed another 300 [[Hindu temple]]s in [[Bardez]] (North Goa). In [[Salcete]] (South Goa), approximately another 300 Hindu temples were destroyed by the Christian officials of the Inquisition. Numerous Hindu temples were destroyed elsewhere at [[Assolna]] and [[Cuncolim]] by Portuguese authorities.<ref name="Spicer2016p309">{{cite book|author=Andrew Spicer|title=Parish Churches in the Early Modern World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1CaoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT310|year=2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-91276-1|pages=309–311}}</ref> A 1569 royal letter in Portuguese archives records that all Hindu temples in its colonies in India had been burnt and razed to the ground.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Portuguese in Goa, in Acompanhando a Lusofonia em Goa: Preocupações e experiências pessoais |year = 2016 | author= Teotonio R. De Souza| url=http://recil.grupolusofona.pt/jspui/bitstream/10437/509/1/PortuGoa.pdf | pages=28–30 |publisher= Lisbon: Grupo Lusofona}}</ref>  The English traveller [[Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet]] who visited Goa in the 1600s writes: 
{{blockquote|text=... as also the ruins of 200 Idol Temples which the Vice-Roy Antonio Norogna totally demolisht, that no memory might remain, or monuments continue, of such gross Idolatry. For not only there, but at Salsette also were two Temples or places of prophane Worship; one of them (by incredible toil cut out of the hard Rock) was divided into three Iles or Galleries, in which were figured many of their deformed Pagotha's, and of which an Indian (if to be credited) reports that there were in that Temple 300 of those narrow Galleries, and the Idols so exceeding ugly as would affright an European Spectator; nevertheless this was a celebrated place, and so abundantly frequented by Idolaters, as induced the Portuguise in zeal with a considerable force to master the Town and to demolish the Temples, breaking in pieces all that monstrous brood of mishapen Pagods. In Goa nothing is more observable now than the fortifications, the Vice-Roy and Arch-bishops Palaces, and the Churches. ...<ref>{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Sir Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/b30251576/ |title=Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the Great |publisher=London : R. Everingham for R. Scot, etc. |year=1677 |page=40 }}</ref>}}