UP Waqf Board Mosque to be completed faster than the Ram Temple UP Waqf Board Mosque to be completed faster than the Ram Temple | India Today Insight The preliminary work on the mosque has already begun and, as per the board, it will likely be completed nine months before the temple advertisement UPDATED: February 4, 2021 00:24 IST The flag hoisting ceremony marked the beginning of the processes to build a mosque in Ayodhya (ANI) The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board made history when it laid down the foundation on India’s Republic Day for the construction of a mosque in Dhannipur village in Ayodhya district, 29 years after the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In its Ayodhya verdict of November 2019, the Supreme Court had ordered the Union government to set up a trust to build the Ram temple at the site of the masjid and allotted a five-acre plot for the construction of a mosque.