National Cathedral Holds First Muslim Prayer
Friday, Nov 14, 2014
Religious groups around the world are taking note of what some are calling a historic event at the National Cathedral. Five Muslim groups held traditional Friday prayers at the Cathedral.
The historic cathedral held Friday’s service to help foster more understanding and acceptance between Christians and Muslims around the world.
The prominent Episcopal cathedral often hosts national events, such as presidential funerals, and has hosted Muslims at various interfaith services in the past. But planners say this is the first time the cathedral has invited Muslims to lead their own prayers there, which they call a “powerful symbolic gesture.’’
(The) Muslim prayer service being held at the Washington National Cathedral for the first time was briefly disrupted by *a* protester Friday afternoon. The protester was then escorted out of the cathedral, (and) allowed two men to remove her without incident, but she raised her voice once she was taken to an adjoining space.
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