Ayodhya: In the Ayodhya case, the Supreme Court was told on Tuesday by the Shia board that a mosque can be built in a Muslim area placed at a distance from the site of the temple-mosque dispute.

"If the Ram temple and mosque co-exist it will lead to conflicts," the Shia Waqf Board told the court.

"We are ready to build a Masjid in the Muslim dominated area of the contested land," Shia Board said in the affidavit.

The board members are of the view that the Waqf Masjid Mir Baqi, popularly known as Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, was a Shia mosque built during the reign of Babur by Mir Baqi who was a Shia from Persia, Wasim Rizvi said. It has suggested that a panel headed by a retired Supreme Court judge and all stakeholders should find an amicable solution to the decades-old dispute. The group should also include nominees from the Prime Minister's Office and the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's Office, it said.

The court will hear the land dispute on August 11.

On December 6, 1992, hundreds of right wing activists razed the 16th-century Babri mosque claiming it was built on a temple marking the birthplace of Lord Ram. The mosque demolition changed the face of Indian politics, and the dispute is still being heard in courts.

In 2010, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court divided the disputed land into three parts - one designated for the Ram Lalla (or the birthplace of Lord Ram), the second to the Nirmohi Akhada and the third to the Sunni Waqf board.

But the Shia Waqf board argued on Tuesday that the part of the disputed land given to the Sunni board belonged to it.

UP's Shia Central Waqf Board tells SC that Babri Masjid was its property and only it was entitled to negotiate an amicable settlement of the dispute.