Construction Of Ayodhya Mosque Likely After Ramadan

Ayodhya Mosque | The Ayodhya Development Authority (ADA) has given clearance for the construction of the Ayodhya Mosque for which the board meeting has taken the decision on the complex layout in Dhannipur village.

Nitish Kumar, District magistrate and Chairman of ADA, Ayodhya said, “All pending clearances to Ayodhya’s mosque cum complex project have been cleared in the recent board meeting. The sanctioned layout of the mosque will be handed over to the Sunni Central Waqf Board (SCWB) in the next couple of days after completing a few formalities. The SCWB called the development a big move and said it will call a meeting, probably after Ramzan, in this context.

Athar Hussain, Secretary Indo Islamic cultural Foundation (IICF) – the trust formed by SCWB to look after the construction in Dhannipur said, “We will convene a meeting after Ramzan where we will finalize the plan to start construction. In the same meeting, we will also chalk out the final date for the construction of the mosque complex.

On November 9, 2019, the Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench permitted the construction of a temple in Ayodhya at the site where the 16th Century Babri Masjid once stood and was brought down by “Kar Sevaks ‘. the apex court, in the same judgment, had also asked the government to allow a “Prominent and suitable” five-acre plot in Ayodhya for the construction of a mosque in lieu of the Babri Masjid. While the board’s clearance has paved the way for the construction of the mosque, the SCWB has maintained that it did not want to associate the upcoming mosque with the disputed 16th Century structure that was brought down on December 6, 1992. Hence, they said, it would not be named after any Mughal emperor.

Athar Hussain said the mosque cum complex will be named after the freedom fighter and revolutionary MNoulvi Ahmadullah Shah Faizabadi, it will include a mosque, hospital, community kitchen, and museau among others. “The maximum area would be allocated to the hospital. We plan to develop a multi-specialty hospital that would be equipped with state-of-art facilities. The entire hospital will be established in two phases. In the first phase, arrangements for 100 beds would be made while in the second phase, 100 more beds will be added. The hospital will offer the best treatment in cancer care, transplants, spine, heart, robotics, orthopedics, emergency, and others, he added.

Professor S.M. Akhtar, a Lucknow- based architect-cum-town planner and founder dean, faculty of architecture, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi, has been appointed by the trust to design the mosque. Besides, the trust has also appointed renowned distorian, international relations expert, and chronicler of Indian cuisine Professor Pushpesh Pant as consultant curator of its archival museum that would be a part of the mosque complex.

The specialty hospital, community kitchen, and museum will be housed in a multi-story vertical structure. These will be meters away from the mosque and a century-old sufi shrine will be in between.

The mosque, meanwhile, will be spherical in shape with a capacity to accommodate 2,000 namazis or worshippers at a time. (Maxim News)

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