{"id":50230,"date":"2024-01-20T11:46:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T11:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/new-mosque-construction-in-indias-ayodhya-to-begin-in-may-muslim-group-says\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T11:46:04","slug":"new-mosque-construction-in-indias-ayodhya-to-begin-in-may-muslim-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/new-mosque-construction-in-indias-ayodhya-to-begin-in-may-muslim-group-says\/","title":{"rendered":"New mosque construction in India\u2019s Ayodhya to begin in May, Muslim group says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>As Hindu devotees prepare to inaugurate a grand temple to one of their holiest deities, India\u2019s Muslims plan to begin building a new mosque in the same city later this year, hoping to make a fresh start after a bloody, decades-long dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Haji Arfat Shaikh, the head of the development committee of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) that is overseeing the mosque project, said this week that construction would begin in May, after the holy month of Ramazan, and the mosque would take three to four years to build.<\/p>\n<p>A Hindu mob destroyed a 16th century mosque in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya in 1992, triggering riots that killed about 2,000 people across India, most of them Muslims.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1572734\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>India\u2019s top court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1515829\/indias-sc-says-temple-to-be-built-on-disputed-ayodhya-site-alternative-land-to-be-provided-for-mosque\">said<\/a> in 2019 that the razing of the mosque was unlawful, but ruled that evidence showed there was a non-Islamic structure beneath it.<\/p>\n<p>It ordered that the site be given to Hindu groups to build a temple and Muslim community leaders be given land elsewhere in the city for constructing a mosque.<\/p>\n<p>While construction of the $180 million temple began within months and the first phase is set to open on Monday, Muslim groups have struggled to raise funds and begin work at a desolate site about 25 km (15 miles) away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hadn\u2019t approached anyone \u2026 there was no public movement for it (funds),\u201d said Zufar Ahmad Faruqi, the president of the IICF.<\/p>\n<p>Hindu groups aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began seeking donations more than three decades back and have collected more than Rs30 billion ($360 million) from 40 million people in India.<\/p>\n<p>The mosque project was delayed also because it had to be redrawn to add more traditional elements in the structure, like minarets, said Athar Hussain, a secretary at the IICF. A 500-bed hospital has also been planned in the complex.<\/p>\n<p>A crowd-funding website is expected to be launched in the coming weeks, said Shaikh, who is also a BJP leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur effort has been to end and convert enmity, hatred among people into love for each other\u2026irrespective of whether or not you accept the Supreme Court judgement,\u201d said Shaikh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this fighting will stop if we teach good things to our children and people\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Hindu devotees prepare to inaugurate a grand temple to one of their holiest deities, India\u2019s Muslims plan to begin building a new mosque in the same city later this year, hoping to make a fresh start after a bloody, decades-long dispute. 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