A special ‘sacred’ brick, made of black soil and bearing ‘<em>aayats</em>’ (couplets from the holy Quran) in gold would be brought all the way from Mecca to lay the foundation of the Ayodhya mosque, to be named after Mohammed Bin Abdullah.
In an exclusive interview to News18, Haji Arafat Sheikh, the chief of the mosque development committee and a member of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), said the construction of the mosque would start from April this year