Uttar Pradesh: IICF issues logo for new mosque in Ayodhya

The logo was released on Saturday.

Athar Hussain, secretary of the mosque trust, said, the logo is an Islamic symbol -- Rub-el-Hizb.

"In Arabic, 'Rub' means one fourth, while 'Hizb' means a group or party. It is a system for memorising and facilitating recitation of the Quran, which is divided into 60 Hizbs. The symbol is used as a marker for a chapter in Arabic calligraphy," he said here on Sunday.

The secretary and members of the Trust visited Dhannipur on Saturday to inspect the topography of the five acres of land, which was handed over by the district administration in the first week of August.

The delegation comprising secretary, Athar Hussain, and trustee Imran Ahmad Shibli met local clerics and members of the Muslim community in Dhannipur and adjoining villages. The villagers assured the delegation of support and cooperation in building the mosque and other public utility facilities.

The Trust will be building a mosque along with a multi-specialty hospital, a community kitchen and a library on the land.

The Trust has already announced that the mosque will not be in the name of Babar and other facilities will be open to people of all communities.

The delegation also visited an ancient Jain temple adjoining Dhannipur -- Sri Jain Swetambara Mandir Raunahi Ratnapuri of the 15th Tirthankara.

The ICCF on Saturday officially took possession of the five-acre land allotted to the Sunni Central Waqf Board in Ayodhya’s Dhannipur village, for construction of a mosque in compliance with the Supreme Court verdict of November 9 last year.

IICF members said they also took measurements at the site. ICCF is the trust formed by the board to look after the development of the five-acre plot. Besides a mosque, a hospital, community kitchen, research centre and a library are likely to come up on the land.

“We visited the site and took measurements of the land for a topography plan of IICF. On the visit to Dhannipur, I was accompanied by Imran Ahmad, a trustee,” said Mr Hussain.

He said after the demarcation work, which was completed by the local Sohawal tehsil, it was necessary to have exact dimensions of the five-acre plot in order to prepare an architectural plan for the complex.

IICF had recently said the mosque on the land is likely to be known as ‘Masjid Dhannipur’. Many suggestions had come and the name ‘Masjid Dhannipur’ topped the list, it had said.

IICF has also invited applications from architects across the country to help with the design of the mosque that would be built on the Indo-Islamic theme.