Ram Temple Like Campaign to Start for Construction of Ayodhya Mosque

Ayodhya: While preparations are in full swing for the ‘pran pratishtha’ of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), tasked with building a proposed mosque in Dhannipur village, has decided that it will now start a campaign like Ram Temple for the construction of the mosque.

The trust formed by the IICF will create a website (which will be launched in February or March this year) where people can donate money through a QR code for the construction of the mosque. It is expected that the fund-raising campaign will further push the mosque construction project in Dhannipur.

The Supreme Court in its landmark judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case in 2019, also ordered five acres of land to be allocated for building a mosque in Dhannipur.

The work of this mosque has not started yet due to lack of funds and administrative delays. Now the IICF wants to start a campaign like Ram Temple for the construction of the mosque.

Haji Arafat Shaikh, a BJP leader from Maharashtra, who was appointed as the new head of the mosque development committee in November 2023 last year, is steering the initiative to construct the new mosque.

It is believed that the foundation intends to build India’s largest mosque. Apart from this, “the world’s largest Quran will be kept in the mosque, which will be about 21 feet”. The mosque will also be India’s first mosque with five minarets.

A huge aquarium will be installed in the mosque like Dubai’s aquarium.

The mosque premises will also have amenities for locals, including a medical college, a cancer hospital and a community centre.

In February 2020, five acres of land were given to build a mosque in Dhannipur, 25 kilometres from the centre of Ayodhya. In its order in November 2019, the Supreme Court cleared the way for building the Ram Temple on the site of the 16th-century Babri Masjid.