Last Updated: December 15, 2023, 17:13 IST
Mumbai-based BJP leader Haji Arafat Shaikh, the chairman of the Masjid Muhammad Bin Abdullah’s Development Committee, said the new mosque in Ayodhya will be the biggest in India.(Image/X)
Masjid Mohammad Bin Abdullah will be built in place of Babri Masjid but at a different spot in Dhannipur, 25km from Ayodhya. The plot was given by the Uttar Pradesh government to the Muslims in accordance with the Supreme Court order in the Ayodhya Ram temple dispute
The foundation stone for the proposed mosque in Ayodhya replacing the Babri Masjid will be laid by Imam-e-Haram or the Imam who leads namaz at the holy mosque of Kaaba in Mecca.
Masjid Mohammad Bin Abdullah will be built in place of Babri Masjid but at a different spot in Dhannipur, 25km from Ayodhya. The plot was given by the Uttar Pradesh government to the Muslims in accordance with the Supreme Court order in the Ayodhya Ram temple dispute.
According to a TOI report, Mumbai-based BJP leader Haji Arafat Shaikh, the chairman of the Masjid Muhammad Bin Abdullah’s Development Committee, said the new mosque in Ayodhya will be the biggest in India. It will house the biggest Quran in the world measuring 21 feet high and 36 feet wide.
The task of building the mosque in Ayodhya was initially taken by the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation, the trust formed on July 29, 2020. In October 2023, however, at a function in Mumbai attended by the foundation chairman Zufar Ahmed Farooqui, it was announced that the mosque would be named Masjid Muhammad Bin Abdullah.
“The mosque will have five minarets symbolising five pillars of Islam namely kalima, namaz, roza, Haj and zakat,” Shaikh was quoted by TOI as saying.
Apart from the mosque, the complex will also have a cancer hospital, schools and colleges, a museum a library and a completely vegetarian kitchen where visitors will be offered free food.
Shaikh also said a major attraction in the complex will be the huge aquarium near the wazu khana or abulation space with separate sections for men and women.
Shaikh further claimed that the beauty of the mosque will outshine the Taj Mahal’s.
“When the evening falls, fountains at the mosque will come alive coinciding with the call for evening namaz. It will be more beautiful than the Taj Mahal and people of all faiths will come to see this monument to peace and harmony even if not all of them will pray here,” said Shaikh.
