Prayer: Is It Permissible to Pray in a Building Constructed Over an Old Graveyard?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Prayer: Is It Permissible to Pray in a Building Constructed Over an Old Graveyard?

English:

Question #377:

The present building of the office where we work used to be the site of a graveyard in the past. About forty years ago it was abandoned and thirty years ago this building was constructed. Now, all the lands around the office have been built on, and there remains no sign of the graveyard. Please clarify whether it is correct for the employees to perform prayer in such an office from the viewpoint of Islamic law?

Answer #377:

The different kinds of making use of such an office and performing prayer in it are allowed without any problem unless it is proved through a shar‘ī way that the ground upon which this office has been built is an endowment for the burial of the dead and it has been used for building through illegal ways as per shar‘.

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