A House of Worship Near Ground Zero

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A five-story building at 45 Park Place, two blocks north of the World Trade Center site, now houses a Muslim prayer space. Burlington Coat Factory operated a store there until Sept. 11, 2001, but it had been vacant since then, until a group of Muslims bought it in July.

Michael Appleton for The New York Times

A House of Worship Near Ground Zero

A building damaged on 9/11 and then abandoned has become a prayer space, envisioned as a future Islamic cultural, educational and recreational center.