Relocating a mosque

Question

There is a mosque built some time ago. The following several valid reasons have arisen. At present, where the mosque stands, rainwater collects and gets inside the mosque and up to the courtyard; for many days the prayer has had to be moved outside the mosque’s enclosure. When the mosque was built, there used to be no water there. On the eastern side of the mosque, at a distance of forty to fifty gaz (a unit of length, about a yard, ≈ 0.9 m)

Answer

If the present mosque is properly a mosque in the Shar‘i sense, then as long as it remains in use, moving its belongings and spending them on some other mosque, new or old, is not valid. However, if this mosque becomes deserted and people give up praying in it — whether because of the growth of a settlement nearby or because another mosque has been built — then moving its…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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