Expanding a mosque because it is cramped

Question

In the village of Achhabal, Malikpura neighbourhood, Sopore, Kashmir, there is a mosque which is insufficient and cramped for the worshippers. The people of the neighbourhood want to demolish this mosque and build it anew, but on the western and eastern sides there is a graveyard, on the northern side, adjoining the mosque, there is a shrine in which a wali (saint)

Answer

Demolishing this mosque on account of its lack of space in order to build a mosque in another place, and buying another place with its price, is absolutely never permissible. If this mosque has too little space, the worshippers cannot fit in it, and it cannot be expanded at all because there is no free land around it, then arrangements should be made separately for building a…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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