A group of Muslim women risked arrest as they sought to pray in the main area of the Islamic Center of Washington — an area ordinarily reserved exclusively for men.
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Their hair covered with headscarves, the group of six women entered the mosque’s prayer area via the main door usually reserved for men and walked through to the room where around 20 men had already arrived.
Women and children ordinarily enter the Washington mosque, located in the city’s embassy district, through a small door hidden behind a screen.
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