Prayer rooms in airports

Some of you may remember I posted about this issue a while ago? I go through Hong Kong a fair bit in transit and thought I knew exactly where the smoking room was but...it had changed into a Prayer Room at some point and..when I tried to enter (still thinking it was a smoking room) I was stopped by a man who told me I could not go in there. Ever since it has bugged me so...this time around I decided to open the door and enter...no one else was there at that point so I sat and prayed...well meditated actually..I noticed there was a sign pointing to mecca but no other religious effects were present so...I turned my body slightly to the left of the quiblat sign...one muslim male came in and didn't seem to have a problem with me being there..another came in with a friend but left after seeing me so...I did what I've wanted to do since I was told I couldn't enter...happy with that but...no muslim women came into the prayer room in the 40 min period I sat there so...do women pray elsewhere?

Hi Hellon ........ women don't pray with men but if they do they mostly pray a distance behind where the males do. women mostly pray at home but if its in a mosque then they have a separate room from the males but like i said before if its just one room then a distance behind the males they can pray but not likely in most cases and i wouldn't know why?

hope that helped

Thanks for that....I had often wondered why I never seen women coming out of prayer rooms in airports. So...me being in there as a woman would that have caused a problem I was unaware of?

That is totally interesting. I wonder if we have prayer rooms in the U.S. Ive been to plenty of airports and never have found one. Anyone know if we do?

Portland airport has a prayer room open to all faiths. Well it's more of like a mini church looking room with pews and such.. very small. I don't know about other airports, I'm usually in a hurry lol.

Yeah, I think I've seen ones like Britt's mentioned - ones that are non-denominational. It sounds like it's a room designed to accommodate people's spiritual needs, so unless a place says it's specifically meant for just one faith, and as long as you're being respectful, I bet most people would be pretty flexible.