TheUttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board (orU.P. Sunni Waqf Board) is a body constituted underThe Wakf Act, 1995 of the Government of India,[1] for general superintendence of the affairs ofSunni Muslimwaqf (charity) properties, waqf institutions of the Sunni Muslim community of the state ofUttar Pradesh in India. Its chairman is Zufar Ahmad Faruqi.[2] The Sunni Waqf Board has been the main Muslim litigant in theBabri Masjid–Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute.[3]
The state waqf boards were established by the state governments in view of the provisions of Section 13 of the Wakf Act, 1954.[1][4]
India also has aCentral Waqf Council to advise the government "on matters concerning the working of boards and the due administration of wakfs."[1]
In February 2020, the government allotted 5 acres (2.0 ha) of agricultural land atDhannipur in Ayodhya municipal corporation to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board as an alternative site for constructing a mosque,[5] to replace theBabri Masjid that was demolished in 1992.[6]