جامع المسائل، مرکز پاسخگویی به احکام شرعی و مسائل فقهی

About mosques that are situated in the middle of streets, there is no way that they can be demolished, both because they are mosques and because the property on which they have been built has been devoted by someone to the mosque. Thus anyone who demolishes such a mosque should pay the price for that by building another mosque or repairing other mosques. In fact, this is an example of wasting the property itself and until there is no necessity, destroying a mosque is strictly impermissible. As regards desolate mosques in deserts and desolate villages, they should be kept in a way that they are not desecrated.

The obligatory precaution demands that infidels be prevented from entering mosques except when they intend to research about Islam and like that.

There is no problem with it if the mosque is not decorated with gold and the picture of living creatures and on the condition that it does not lead to extravagance and the wasting of resources.