Rules Concerning Graveyards: Ruling on Building a School on Partitioned Cemetery Land and Validity of Prayer There

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Rules Concerning Graveyards: Ruling on Building a School on Partitioned Cemetery Land and Validity of Prayer There

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Question #2099:

The Ministry of Education partitioned a somewhat old cemetery for the purpose of building a school on the partitioned land. The Ministry has done this without obtaining the approval of the residents. However, the school is now up and running. The students perform their prayer at the premises. What is your view on the matter?

Answer #2099:

There is no harm in making use of the school, nor is there harm in holding prayer at the premises provided that there is no evidence pointing to the fact that the land on which the school was built was endowed for the purpose of burying the dead, that it is not a public service facility for burying the dead or for some other use, and that it is not private property.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Rules Concerning Graveyards