Prayer Room

[Fayrouz]

Thanks. There are disabled toilets at my college but they don't like none wheel chair users from useing them and if I lift my legs above a certen point, I get really bad hip cramp which really hirts.
If the medical room is in useage, I'll proberly end up praying in the kitchen class room or in the empty office in the staff area in my block. That would be scary as a few of the tutors are Christian and 1 or 2 like to take the wind me up. They are just having a little fun with me.

Oh right, well we have 2 wheelchair access toilets, one is with the main toilets and everyone uses it, so sometimes i use that. But if there's someone in (which there always seems to be!) i use another one right next to the first aid room. I asked if i would be able to use it, in case it was just for wheelchair users, and they said it was fine. I'm sorry to hear about your hip
Are your teachers just messing or being serious? Even if they are just messing i think it's wrong to pester students about issues which are nothing to do with education.

 

[x-samia-x]

Asalamualaikum,

we don't have a prayer room at my school either =(. its reli upsetting me now, because there is nowhere we can pray. we have a staggered lunch time system, which means theres only one third of the school on lunch at any one time. its reli difficult to find out which rooms are free.. and theyr often still occupied by people, who are reli stubborn and they say we wouldn't be able to move the tables.. pray.. then move them back again. cos we only have half an hour lunch time.

i'm reli upet about it, because it means i have to miss my salat. there are a few other sisters (im at a girls only school.. in the sixth form) and we have asked.. but we just get told theyr trying to do something about it. since september?!?!

any ideas?
jazka'Allah khairun,
sister Samia

 

[praying4jannah]

assalamualayakum

i go to an 6thform where 80% of the students are muslim mashallah. before there were no facilities for a prayer room.. but.. many of the students gathered together.. and took the matter further and spoke to many of the teachers about this. alhumdulilah they started off by allowing one classroom open at lunchtimes.. where the students were able to pray.. but this was very confusing at times.. as the classroom would regularly change.. but eventually.. after alot of persistance.. the school did create a permenant room for prayer.. which is ONLI used for prayer. so i would just like to say.. NEVA GIVE UP. keep going to the teachers.. with greater number of students each time. inshallah they will listen and do something about it.
assalamualaykum
sister Nadia

 

[x-samia-x]

assalamualayakum

i go to an 6thform where 80% of the students are muslim mashallah. before there were no facilities for a prayer room.. but.. many of the students gathered together.. and took the matter further and spoke to many of the teachers about this. alhumdulilah they started off by allowing one classroom open at lunchtimes.. where the students were able to pray.. but this was very confusing at times.. as the classroom would regularly change.. but eventually.. after alot of persistance.. the school did create a permenant room for prayer.. which is ONLI used for prayer. so i would just like to say.. NEVA GIVE UP. keep going to the teachers.. with greater number of students each time. inshallah they will listen and do something about it.
assalamualaykum
sister Nadia

jazaka'Allah khairun sis

erm, our sixth form is like.. 20% muslims masha'Allah.. probs less actually. but we'll see, insha'Allah

 

[asma2]

alhamdulilah my college got one

 

[Ummu Sufyaan]

Asalamualaikum,

we don't have a prayer room at my school either =(. its reli upsetting me now, because there is nowhere we can pray. we have a staggered lunch time system, which means theres only one third of the school on lunch at any one time. its reli difficult to find out which rooms are free.. and theyr often still occupied by people, who are reli stubborn and they say we wouldn't be able to move the tables.. pray.. then move them back again. cos we only have half an hour lunch time.

i'm reli upet about it, because it means i have to miss my salat. there are a few other sisters (im at a girls only school.. in the sixth form) and we have asked.. but we just get told theyr trying to do something about it. since september?!?!
any ideas?
jazka'Allah khairun,
sister Samia

when i was going to school, we made a deal with the english staff. When one of us needed to pray, we'd just go to the english staff room and ask for a key for one of the english rooms. they knew straight away.
could you pray at the back of the school or something?

EDIT: I havnt read it myself, maybe this helps http://islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=13705&ln=eng

 

[Mikayeel]

subhanAllah! My college DOESN'T have a prayer room. Nearly half the college is muslim and we're not allowed 2 ask teachers if we can use their rooms.
My friend was told 2 pray in the CHAPEL at her college.

Don't colleges want 2 accomodate for different faiths???!!!

you know my college i pray in the chapel aswell , sometimes there as another room free, but most of the times i just have to do it in the chapel!

 

[adeeb]

alhamdulillah,

since my society is the Islamic one, we have a comfortable room called 'musholla' to do the prayer..

if u dont have one, place doesn't matter, wherever you are, u are able to do the prayer except two places, bathroom and graveyard...

may Allah make u easy tho do the prayer even in the smallest room at ure collage...hehe ameen..

 

[MaiCarInMtl]

My university used to have a prayer room for muslim students but they took it away about 3 years ago. It was a huge issue and students are still fighting to have a prayer room of their own. It's very sad to see this kind of thing especially when another university just a few blocks away has made a great prayer space for their muslim students (it has 2 entrances, one for men and one for women, a tiled ablution area and carpeted floors in the main area. The male and female prayer sections are divided by a movable wall which is great for Saturday morning Halaqas (so the teacher can sit in the middle of the walls and both sides can hear him and he can see if anyone has any questions). Meanwhile, my university recently invested 2.1 million dollars into renovations for the Hillel house!!!