Uttar Pradesh Waqf board which met today has agreed to take the 5 acre plot in Ayodhya for building a mosque. Zufar Ahmad Faruqi, chairman of the Waqf board said, “The board will set up a trust soon for the construction of the mosque. Besides the mosque, there will be an Indo-Islamic research centre, a public library, a charitable hospital and other useful facilities on the land.”
Information about the trust and its members will be shared with the media and public once it is formed, he added. The trust will accept donations towards construction of the mosque as well as the other facilities which will come up in the campus. The name of the mosque will be decided later, he said.
The meeting was attended by Adnan Faruq Shah, Junaid Siddiqui, Syed Ahmed Ali, Abrar Ahmed and Juneed Ahmed attended the Waqf board meeting chaired by Faruqi in Lucknow. Last year India’s apex court had ruled in favour of the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya and provided an alternative five acres plot to the Muslim community for construction of a mosque.
Yogi Adityanath cabinet on February 5 decided to give an alternate plot to the Sunni Waqf Board on the Ayodhya-Lucknow National Highway.
