Is it prescribed to build mosques with zakah of wealth?

Question:
Is it permissible for a person to give from his zakah of wealth to build a mosque that is nearing completion, and whose construction has stopped?

Answer:
It is well known among all scholars, and the opinion of the majority and the most numerous, which is like scholarly consensus among the scholars of the righteous Salaf, the earliest generations: that zakah is not to be spent on the construction of mosques, the purchase of books, or the like, but rather it is to be spent in the eight categories: the poor, the needy, those who work on it, those whose hearts are to be reconciled, in the freeing of captives, and in debt, in the cause of Allah, and for the traveler. And in the cause of Allah, it is specific to jihad. This is the well-known position among the people of knowledge, and spending it on the construction of mosques, or the construction of schools, or roads, or the like, is not part of that. This is the well-known position among the people of knowledge.