The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board (or U.P.
Sunni Waqf Board) is a body constituted under The Wakf Act, 1995 of the Government of India,[1] for general superintendence of the affairs of Sunni Muslim waqf (charity) properties, waqf institutions of the Sunni Muslim community of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
[2] The Sunni Waqf Board has been the main Muslim litigant in the Babri Masjid–Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute.
[1][4] India also has a Central 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 at Dhannipur in Ayodhya municipal corporation to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board as an alternative site for constructing a mosque,[5] to replace the Babri Masjid that was demolished in 1992.