Turning a mosque into an Eidgah

Question

Question: There was a mosque in a village. The people of the neighbourhood, after consulting one another, built it in another place. Now these people want to add some land on all four sides to the site of the first mosque and make an Eidgah (a ground for the Eid prayer). What needs to be ascertained is this: if some more land is added to the site of the first mosque and an Eidgah is made, will the Eid prayer in it be permissible without dislike (karaha) or with dislike?

Answer

Where the Eid prayer is permissible, it may be performed both in the mosque and in the Eidgah; however, if there is no strong excuse, going out to the Eidgah to pray it is sunna. So if that village is such a large village that the Friday and Eid prayers are valid in it — that is, in terms of its population and its other amenities such as a bazaar and the like, it is like a…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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