The Ayodhya mosque is set to be built as per the 2019 Supreme Court Ram Janmabhoomi verdict.
Lucknow:
Raising of the national flag on India s 72nd Republic Day and a tree plantation drive marked the formal beginning of the project to construct a mosque at Uttar Pradesh s Ayodhya. It is set to be built following the landmark 2019 Supreme Court verdict that facilitated the construction of a temple at the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya and a mosque in the same district.
Members of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) trust, which will build the mosque in Ayodhya s Dhannipur village on a five-acre plot, assembled at the site at 8.15 am on Tuesday morning. The village is about 25 km from the Ram Janmabhoomi site where the Ram Temple is being built.
Ayodhya mosque trust members laying the foundation of the project at Dhannipur village in Ayodhya on Tuesday. The tricolour was unfurled by Trust chairman, Zufar Ahmad Farooqui
AYODHYA: Unfurling of the tricolour and a tree plantation drive on India’s 72nd Republic Day marked the formal launch of the Ayodhya mosque project at Dhannipur village, 25km off Ramjanmabhoomi, exactly six months after Sunni Waqf Board constituted the mosque trust Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation following the 2019 apex court verdict that mandated construction of a temple at Ramjanmabhoomi and a mosque in the district in lieu of Babri Masjid.
The tricolour was hoisted by Trust chairman Zufar Ahmad Farooqui, and nine saplings were planted at the site by members of the mosque Trust amidst cheer and enthusiasm cutting across religious lines among villagers of Dhannipur, a nondescript hamlet which catapulted into fame after 5acre adjacent to a century-old Sufi shrine was allotted for the mosque.
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