In the inpatient psychiatry department at Hennepin County Medical Center, patients can spend days or weeks getting treatment. Most of the time, they don’t have access to their phones. Many are facing serious mental health challenges.
For some Muslim patients, these circumstances can make it difficult to try and find which direction to face for prayer.
Muslims are obligated to pray five times a day, each time while facing the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city in Islam. This direction is called qibla…