11. They contain not only classrooms, prayer halls, bunkers, testing fields and firing ranges, but sometimes underground tunnels and concrete storage facilities for weapons and chemicals. 12. Under construction nearby is a temple that will contain a prayer hall and living quarters for Buddhist monks and nuns. 13. Avoiding the spotlight, Muslims have quietly begun using a renovated prayer hall in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound that is holy to both Muslims and Jews. 14. Dozens of churches and prayer halls were damaged or destroyed. 15. For weeks, Arab workers have been laying floor tiles and installing lighting to turn the chamber into a prayer hall to be called the Marwani Mosque. 16. In the latest incidents, two prayer halls in southern Gujarat were razed Tuesday. 17. In subsequent days, mobs armed with iron rods, bicycle chains and axes broke into makeshift churches and prayer halls. 18. In the latest incidents, two Christian prayer halls in southern Gujarat were razed Tuesday. 19. Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert has suggested that Israel and the Muslim clergy had tacitly agreed that the tunnel entrance could open in exchange for allowing the prayer hall. 20. Many cinemas have been converted to warehouses, prayer halls or shops. |
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