Shaheed Masjid

Masjid Garib Nawaz Al Maroof

Near tehsil compound, Ram Sanehi Ghat, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh

Shaheed 2021-05-17

إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

“Indeed, to Allah we belong, and to Him we shall return.”

— Surah Al-Baqarah (2:156)

About Masjid Garib Nawaz Al Maroof

Built: About 100 years old, pre-Independence (Waqf Board / residents' claim)

A neighbourhood masjid beside the tehsil offices on the Barabanki–Ayodhya highway, recorded with the Sunni Waqf Board.

A local lawyer said he had prayed there for over three decades. Its removal during the pandemic lockdown made it one of the first widely reported losses of a masjid in the 2020s.

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What Happened

What happened

Brought down at night by the district administration under police deployment, during the COVID curfew.

Source: https://outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-mosque-demolished-in-ups-barabanki-aimplb-sunni-waqf-board-demand-probe/383133

Legal status

Waqf Board announced it would move the Allahabad High Court; state set up a 3-member inquiry into the waqf registration.

Source: https://outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-mosque-demolished-in-ups-barabanki-aimplb-sunni-waqf-board-demand-probe/383133

Disputed accounts

District administration said it was an illegal residential structure on tehsil land, removed under an SDM court order after occupants failed to prove title; officials also filed an FIR alleging the 2019 waqf registration was irregular.

Source: https://outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-mosque-demolished-in-ups-barabanki-aimplb-sunni-waqf-board-demand-probe/383133

UP Sunni Central Waqf Board and AIMPLB said it was a century-old registered waqf masjid, that a High Court matter was pending, and that residents had prayed there for decades.

Source: https://outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-mosque-demolished-in-ups-barabanki-aimplb-sunni-waqf-board-demand-probe/383133

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