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Waqf Board forms trust for mosque in Ayodhya, construction to begin soon

15-member trust to be headed by Waqf Board chairperson Zufar Ahmad Faruqi

A worker sanitizing a Mosque at Shivajinagar, ahead of its reopening on 8th June as per the guidelines of the Government during coronavirus lockdown, in Bengaluru on Saturday.
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According to the chairperson of the Waqf Board, Zufar Ahmad Faruqi, the trust would soon decide on the date of the construction

Siddharth Kalhans Lucknow
A week before the foundation laying of Ram temple, the Sunni Waqf Board too formed a trust for the construction of a mosque in Ayodhya. The name of the trust would be Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation. 

The Supreme Court in its verdict on the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute had ordered the allotment of 5 acres of land to the Sunni Waqf Board for the construction of a mosque. Sunni Waqf board was the petitioner in the case. 
 
Following court order, the state government had allotted 5 acres of land to the waqf board at Rounahi in Ayodhya district.

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