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...microphone and sings out the traditional Muslim call to prayer in Arabic. "Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" the call begins. Mesmerized, the Tadzhiks as one man -- there is not a woman in sight among the 10,000 except Alexandra -- raise their hands in the traditional Muslim posture of worship. The Soviets stiffen. The officers disappear from the windows. Except for the wail of the mullah, a total hush has descended upon the gathering. After the prayer call, the mullah reads a sura from the Koran honoring the dead. Three minutes later, the prayer and reading are over, but there...
...great to see people in it," said Gloria J. Korsman, a student on the school's worship committee. "It moves from being a museum piece to actively being used...
Divinity School officials called last night's service a "rededication." For the past two years, the school held worship service in community rooms on Andover's first floor which was made accessible to the handicapped...
...decided worship could not be communal if we excluded those who were not able to climb the old stairs," Thiemann said at the service. "Now that we have made the space accessible, we must work together to make this a place of our life together...
Students and faculty said they were pleased to worship in the previously unused space...