The construction of the Dhannipur mosque project in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh will formally begin on January 26. The Dhannipur mosque project also includes a hospital, a museum, a library, a community kitchen, the Indo-Islamic Cultural Research Centre, a publication house, besides a mosque.
The mosque will be constructed following the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi case.
”At a meeting of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), it was decided that Republic Day will be celebrated with the start of the Dhannipur Mosque Project, which includes a hospital, a museum, a library, a community kitchen, the Indo-Islamic Cultural Research Centre, a publication house and a mosque,” secretary and spokesperson of the trust Athar Hussain said in a statement on Sunday.
Mr Hussain said that at the trust is planning to hoist the national flag on the five-acre plot of the project at 8.30 am on Republic Day, which will be followed by plantation of tree saplings by the chief trustee and the member trustees of the IICF which will mark the formal beginning of the project.
At a virtual meet chaired by IICF president Zufar Ahmad Farooqi and attended by all the nine trustees, the progress of the trust activities, especially the procedural delay in getting the 12-A/80-G clearances under the Income-Tax Act and the proceedings for the opening of an FCRA account, was discussed, the statement said.
”It was decided to make a formal beginning of the project by applying for the plan clearance from the Ayodhya District Board and start the soil testing process at the five-acre plot,” it added.
The focus of the project is to give community service in the area to create awareness on climate change, Hussain suggested that the formal inauguration of the project should be made by planting tree saplings on the five-acre plot of land.
As imagined in the project, a green area, which will have plants from all over the world — from the Amazon rainforest to areas in Australia that report bushfires — and from all different geographical regions of India will be developed to create awareness on the looming threat posed by climate change.
Earlier, Hussain had said a mosque measuring 15,000 square feet will be constructed in Ayodhya’s Dhannipur village and will be of the same size as that of the Babri mosque.
The Mosque’s shape may be completely different from that of other mosques. It may be square-shaped like the Kaaba Sharif in Mecca, as hinted by the architect, SM Akhtar.
The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board has formed the IICF, a trust, for the construction of the mosque on the five-acre plot.
After a long legal fight, the Supreme Court on November 9, 2020, had paved the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid site at Ayodhya.
The top court also directed the Centre to grant an alternative five-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque at a "prominent" place in the town in Uttar Pradesh.
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The Uttar Pradesh government allocated a five-acre land in Dhannipur village in Sohaval Tehsil of Ayodhya, the blueprint of which was unveiled on December 19.
On December 6, 1992, the Babri Masjid was demolished by ”karsevaks”, who claimed that it is the same site where an ancient Ram Mandir stood.