Muslim Prayers Welcome At Pentagon Chapel

August 19, 2010

Author: Tom Cohen

Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/18/pentagon.chapel.islam/index.html?hpt=T2

Less than 100 feet from where a hijacked airplane slammed into the Pentagon, Muslim military personnel bring prayer rugs on weekday afternoons for group worship.

On Fridays, a local imam conducts a service in the Pentagon Memorial Chapel built after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks by al Qaeda that killed 184 people at the U.S. military headquarters.

The chapel, with stained-glass windows, burgundy carpeting and a wooden altar, provides a place of prayer and religious observance for anyone regardless of faith or culture.