Endowment: Building a Prayer Hall or Husayniyyah on Endowed Land

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Endowment: Building a Prayer Hall or Husayniyyah on Endowed Land

English:

Question #2025:

Is it permissible to build a place for prayer or ḥusayniyyah on already endowed lands?

Answer #2025:

The endowed land cannot be the subject of a new endowment deed for the purpose of building a masjid, a ḥusayniyyah, or anything else. It is not permissible to give it away for free to build a place for prayer or any public facility. However, there is no objection to leasing it from the shar‘ī trustee to build a place for religious worship, a school, or a ḥusayniyyah on it. The rent generated should be spent in the avenues specified in the endowment deed.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Endowments