At
a Friday Jum» ah prayer service earlier this month, more than a 150 worshippers trickled in, deposited shoes up front, and found a patch of floor in a chamber with bare white walls and exposed pipes on the ceiling.
At Park51, the site of Rauf's proposed Islamic center (pictured), Rauf and hundreds of other Muslims - including many from Masjid al - Farah - have already begun meeting for
Friday afternoon prayers, called
Jum» ah, on the building's ground floor.