Sunni Central Waqf Board announces setting up of trust to build mosque in Ayodhya

Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board has announced setting up of a trust to build a mosque in Ayodhya, in compliance with the November 2019 order of the Supreme Court in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case. The trust has been named the ‘Indo Islamic Cultural Foundation’.

 

In a press release Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board said that it had accepted the alternative five-acre land allotted to it by the Uttar Pradesh government at Village Dhannipur in Raunahi area of Ayodhya. There will be 15 members on the trust.

 

The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board will be the founder trustee of the trust, while the secretary of the



trust will also function as the official spokesperson.

 

According to the chairperson of the Waqf Board, Zufar Ahmad Faruqi, the trust would soon decide on the date of the construction.

 

The board in its earlier meeting had decided to construct a mosque and other facilities for the public on the 5 acres of land allotted to it by the state government.

 

In compliance of the Judgement and order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, in Ram Janm Bhumi-Babri Masjid case, the Government of Uttar Pradesh had allotted 5 Acres of land in Village Dhannipur, of Raunahi area in Ayodhya.