Environmental Portrait

The country that I have been assigned is Egypt. I got into contact with an old friend from high school who practices Islam, and who's father had spent some time in Egypt. Her father Muhamed Elarby took me to a Muslim Mosque in Anaheim on a Tuesday night so that I could see Muslim prayer and custom in action. The first picture is of a man whom is doing Wudu. Wudu is the practice of washing one self before praying to Allah. The second picture is of Muslim men praying along with a head prayer leader. The amount of pictures I took was very limited due to how private the act of prayer in a Mosque is. I had a few people confront me about taking pictures, but as soon as I told them who I was with they left me alone. It was still pretty scary having upset people walking up to me looking like they were about to knock me out if I didn't stop taking pictures!