On the 72nd Republic Day, as the entire country would be
rejoicing in festive spirits with patriotism filled in their hearts, Uttar
Pradesh will see the beginning of the Dhannipur mosque project in Ayodhya on
January 26, PTI reported.

The mosque is coming up in the Uttar Pradesh district in accordance with
the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi case.

“At a meeting of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), it
was decided that Republic Day will be celebrated with the start of the
Dhannipur Mosque Project, which includes a hospital, a museum, a library, a
community kitchen, the Indo-Islamic Cultural Research Centre, a publication
house and a mosque, secretary and spokesperson of the trust Athar Hussain said
in a statement on Sunday.

The national flag will be hoisted on the five-acre plot of the project
at 8.30 am on January 26.

At a virtual meet chaired by IICF president Zufar Ahmad Farooqi and
attended by all the nine trustees, the progress of the trust activities,
especially the procedural delay in getting the 12-A/80-G clearances under the
Income-Tax Act and the proceedings for the opening of an FCRA account, was
discussed, the statement said.

“It was decided to make a formal beginning of the project by
applying for the plan clearance from the Ayodhya District Board and start the
soil testing process at the five-acre plot,” it added.

Hussain proposed that the formal start of the project should be made by
planting tree saplings on the five-acre plot of land.

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As envisaged in the project, a green area has been set aside which will have
plants from all over the world — from the Amazon rainforest to areas in
Australia that report bushfires — as well as from different geographical
locations of India, to create awareness on the imminent threat posed by climate
change.

Earlier, Hussain had said a mosque measuring 15,000 square feet will be
built in Ayodhya’s Dhannipur village. It will be of the same size as that of
the Babri mosque. SM Akhtar, the architect of the mosque, hinted that the
mosque may be square-shaped like the Kaaba Sharif in Mecca.