Why isn’t the Centre allowing Nizamuddin Markaz to reopen in Delhi? The Markaz was closed in March 2020, after coronavirus cases were traced to a congregation of the Tablighi Jamaat held there. 12 hours ago A man wearing a protective mask in Nizamuddin walks to board a bus that will take him to a quarantine facility. | Danish Siddiqui/Reuters In March last year, a week after the Modi government imposed a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, the gates of a building comprising a mosque, a school and a hostel, hidden behind a cramped neighbourhood, were locked by the Delhi Police. The building, situated in Nizamuddin in New Delhi, was the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic evangelical organisation with a presence in several countries.