﻿ Islam Question and Answer - Ruling on building above or
beneath a mosque Wed 7 Saf 1435 - 11 December 2013 Ruling on
building above or beneath a mosque Before he died, my father
instructed me to build a mosque with some of his money as an
ongoing charity. It is to have a prayer room on the ground floor
and above it a charitable medical centre and an institution for
memorising Qur'aan, as well as an Islamic library and a private
parking lot for visitors to the medical centre. Is it
permissible to build above and beneath the mosque or is it
better to change the request and build the mosque on its own and
have the rest of the charitable activities in a separate
building?.  Praise be to Allaah.  Firstly: there is nothing
wrong with having the mosque beneath a structure or above it, if
it is built in this manner from the outset.   In al-Mawsoo‘ah
al-Fiqhiyyah (12/295) it says: The Shaafa‘is, Maalikis and
Hanbalis regard it as permissible to make the top of the
building a mosque but not the bottom, or vice versa,