Is Zakat Due on the Funds of a Mosque or Madrasa?

Question

(a) If the funds of a mosque or madrasa reach the nisab, will zakat be wajib on them after a year has passed or not? Spending Cinema Income on a Mosque and Madrasa (b) Further, may income from a cinema be spent on a mosque or madrasa or not? If someone wishes to gift a cinema house to a mosque or madrasa, will it be proper to rent it out or sell it and put the money into the mosque or madrasa? And is zakat wajib on money earned through haram and interest or not?

Answer

(a) When a madrasa or mosque has funds of the amount of the nisab, zakat is not obligatory on them. (b) It is not proper to spend [income from] a cinema, or any impermissible income, on a mosque or madrasa; such income must be given away in charity (sadaqa); its recipients are only poor, destitute students, so that it is not spent on salaries, construction and the like.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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