People turned out across the country to stand together with Muslims as they try to recover.
By Anna Fifield Anna Fifield Beijing bureau chief. Email Bio Follow March 22 at 3:37 AM CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — At 1:30 on Friday afternoon, Muslims in Christchurch began their weekly prayers. A week earlier, these same prayers were interrupted by a gunman who burst into the Al Noor Mosque and killed 42 people, then drove across town to kill eight more at another mosque.
In brief remarks before the silence in Hagley Park, Ardern cited the prophet Muhammad as saying that “the believers, in their mutual kindness, compassion and sympathy are just like one body.” “We are brokenhearted, but we are not broken. We are alive, we are together, we are determined to not let anyone divide us,” Imam Gamal Fouda told the crowd gathered in Christchurch.
Authorities had been hoping to have the mosques ready to open in time for prayers on Friday. Instead, they will be handed back to the communities on Saturday. There were similar scenes at mosques in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, and thousands were expected at a vigil Friday night. Some Muslims were supplying headscarves and helping women who wanted to wear them put them on.Separately, after the prayers in Christchurch, families gathered as a line of 27 hearses brought 27 bodies to a cemetery here to finally lay the victims to rest.
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