Rules Concerning Graveyards: Using Derelict Cemetery Land for New Construction

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Rules Concerning Graveyards: Using Derelict Cemetery Land for New Construction

English:

Question #2089:

Due to the non-availability of a piece of land in the town centre to build an information centre on it, is it permissible to build the centre in the derelict part of an old cemetery?

Answer #2089:

It is not permissible if the public cemetery was designated as an endowment for burying the Muslim dead, or the building of the centre would entail exhuming the dead bodies or desecrating the graves of Muslims. Otherwise, there is no objection to that.

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