1.   A mob of raging machete-wielding Hindu fundamentalists crested the hill above his mud hut and swarmed over the rustic Christian prayer hall where he worships.

2.   But like a growing number of temples, Tenryu offers a remedy in its main prayer hall.

3.   Clerestories between the levels admit light into the prayer hall below.

4.   His charge is the same one made by Hindu nationalists in Gujarat, in the west, who accused Christians of burning down their own prayer halls.

5.   It can serve as a prayer hall, a school, a bank, a library and a social service center.

6.   Once inside, Jews were directed to prayer halls named for the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob, each appreciably smaller than the spacious Isaac Hall now reserved for Muslims.

7.   That night, four Christian prayer halls and two Christian schools were attacked.

8.   The expectation level is so feverish that the waiting room feels like a prayer hall.

9.   The Or Aviv Synagogue, with its library, prayer hall and classrooms, was a modest, prefabricated compound.

10.   Their small prayer hall has walls of corrugated metal and a floor of concrete.