No place to pray

Rejaul looking on before the half-day prayer in his private parking lot at a construction site in Monfalcone. — AFP

IT’s Friday prayers in the northeastern Italian city of Monfalcone and hundreds of men are on their knees in a concrete parking lot, their heads bowed to the ground.

They are just a fraction of the city’s Muslims who, since November, have been banned from praying inside their two cultural centres by Monfalcone’s far-right mayor.