Calls to prayer rung out from a Bronx mosque Wednesday, as a bereaved community prepares to bury their dead — 17 souls — in the coming days.
Members of the Masjid Ar Rahman pray, in the Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. The Mosque is a place of worship for some of the residents of the building which suffered the New York City's deadliest fire in three decades.
“This community, these people have gone through so much,” said Sheikh Musa Drammeh, a spokesperson for a community with a deep Muslim faith. At least a dozen victims worshipped at the Masjid-Ur-Rahmah mosque, just blocks from Sunday’s devastation. “The most important thing is really giving each other support. We are all members of the same community, so we are like family,” said Haji Dukuray, whose niece, Haja, died in the fire with her husband and their three children — Fatoumata, 5, Mariam, 11, and Mustafa, 12.“Such beautiful angelic eyes,” neighbor Renee Howard, 68, had said about Mustafa earlier in the week.
People ran down the darkened steps, some from the top floor of the 19-story building. Many escaped, but others collapsed and perished on their way down. He was thankful that another daughter survived and hopes his son Yacub, 16, will soon be released from the hospital.Musa Kabba, the imam at the Masjid-Ur-Rahmah, said the mosque was trying to organize prayers and funerals as quickly as possible. He has asked congregants to be patient, as the medical examiner’s office releases more of the dead.
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