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Users of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH)\u2019s prayer rooms were to collect their personal belongings by Thursday 3 April, otherwise they will be removed. This was the announcement on KUnet<\/a> following months of public debate.<\/p>\n

The rooms \u2014 also referred to as quiet rooms, retreat spaces, or meditation rooms \u2014 have come under fire for being de facto gender-segregated, and for possibly being used by Muslim students to monitor each other. This was the conclusion of a Danish government-appointed Commission for the Forgotten Women’s Struggle, which was set up to tackle social control. One of its recommendations was a nationwide regulation of prayer rooms at Danish universities, and this had reignited a long-standing debate.<\/p>\n

A recurring theme in the criticism has been the interior design of the rooms. In addition to movable partitions \u2014 which in several rooms have been used to separate men and women \u2014 critics have pointed to carpets, books, and pamphlets associated with Islam. It was this criticism that on 1 April prompted UCPH to announce that the rooms must be cleared of personal items, and that from now on they will \u00bbbe kept free of anything not part of campus administration furnishings.\u00ab<\/p>\n

The university will carry out regular inspections to ensure the rooms remain religiously neutral. But what does that really mean? And what exactly is changing? The University Post popped out to visit a few of the UCPH prayer rooms \u2014 before and after the clear-out.
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Out with the altars and the Hizb ut-Tahrir<\/h3>\n

Our first stop on our prayer room sightseeing tour \u2014 before the clear-out \u2014 was South Campus.<\/p>\n

On the far edge of the campus, in building 24, is the retreat room. On the way there, the University Post passes several group rooms, where diligent students are immersed in presentations and exam prep. The retreat room is easy to miss: To the uninitiated it might seem to be just another study room along the hallway.<\/p>\n

A scent of incense lingers in the air as you step inside. The floor is covered with a Persian wall-to-wall carpet, and a couple of cushions lean against one wall \u2014 as if inviting visitors to sit down and take a break.<\/p>\n

There is a notice board and a bookshelf on the opposite wall, offering visitors a wide range of spiritual materials: pamphlets for Christian prayer meetings are alongside flyers for retreats, yoga, meditation, and advertisements for Muslim organisations.<\/p>\n

Among these, the University Post also finds two pamphlets from Hizb ut-Tahrir, which have previously been debated in Danish media in connection with UCPH\u2019s prayer rooms \u2014 as well as a book by the Canadian imam Bilal Philips, who appears on the Danish government\u2019s list of banned hate preachers<\/a>.
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\nOn the floor below the bookshelf are a few prayer rugs and one yoga mat. At the opposite end of the room, a small table is covered with an embroidered piece of cloth in Middle Eastern style. On the table is a multi-armed candelabra, and the arrangement as a whole evokes the impression of an altar.<\/p>\n

You have no doubts that this room was set up for religious use when the University Post visited it before the clear-out.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks later, the room has changed significantly. The scent of incense is gone. The ‘altar’ with the Middle Eastern cloth and the candelabra is now just an empty table, the bookshelf is bare, and several flyers have been removed from the notice board. The prayer mats that were in the bookshelf are also gone.<\/p>\n

The yoga mat is still there, however, as are the floor cushions. The Persian wall-to-wall carpet has also been allowed to stay.
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Gender segregation and headscarves<\/h3>\n

The second stop on the University Post\u2019s tour of retreat rooms is on the second floor of the old Panum building. The route passes a small cafeteria before arriving at the \u2018devotion room\u2019, as they call it here.<\/p>\n

During our first visit, the room at Panum is so crowded that a small queue has formed outside. It is lunchtime, and the room appears to be in particularly high demand. The University Post has to therefore give up on entering and taking photos that day.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the room has not yet been cleared when we return. The first thing that catches your eye is the new UCPH guidelines, which have been posted on the door. They remind users that all personal belongings will be removed on 3 April as part of the university\u2019s effort to ensure that the rooms remain accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n

Until then, everything proceeds as usual. The room is well attended, and the University Post notes that prayer this afternoon appears to be gender-segregated \u2014 with men on one side of a curtain, and women on the other. An additional curtain has been installed, allowing the room to be divided into three zones. However, this one is not in use while the University Post is present.
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\nUsers can help with the clear-out by taking some of the many books from the shelves. In the boxes on the bookshelf are prayer mats and headscarves, freely available for those who do not bring their own. A shelf holding prayer stones hangs on the wall.<\/p>\n

One visitor, who uses the room for prayer, says to the University Post that she understands the need for the space to appear more neutral. But she regrets that she will now have to carry all her prayer items with her in the future.<\/p>\n

Because if the room ends up like the one at South Campus, it is likely that most of the furnishings will be removed. And that means it will look quite different by next week.
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Is the monastic cell the ideal?<\/h3>\n

The tour ends at the central social science campus CSS, which features a rather more austere prayer room. The space resembles a cell, tucked away deep in the basement of the old municipal hospital, where sunlight is scarce. The door can only be opened if you have applied for special access using your student ID, and information about the room is passed on by word of mouth.<\/p>\n

Tiles cover the floor and walls, and the furnishings consist of a single chair in the corner and an empty bookshelf, on which a sign with the room\u2019s sparse guidelines is taped: \u00bbNo shoes, food or drinks!!\u00ab A lonely whiteboard hangs on one wall, and a movable partition stands in one corner \u2014 otherwise, the room is completely empty.
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\nDespite its sparse furnishings, the room is still in use. The University Post\u2019s guide for the first visit to the retreat room is Muhammed Huzeyfe Aydin. He is a political science student in his eighth semester and chair of the Muslim Student Association City Campus. Muhammed Huzeyfe Aydin explains that the rules for the room are simple: you take your belongings with you when you leave, and you respect other users. The room is open to everyone.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe d\u00e9cor is pretty bare, but it serves its purpose. Personally, it doesn\u2019t really matter to me what the room looks like. I\u2019ll admit, the room out on South Campus is cosier, but that\u2019s just about comfort. The most important thing is that the room is accessible,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

Muhammed Huzeyfe Aydin uses the room for prayer. He explains that the Muslim daily prayers, especially during winter, fall very close together and often overlap with lectures or lunch breaks.<\/p>\n

\u00bbMy day would suddenly become quite hectic if I had to go home twice or spend my entire lunch break finding an empty room at CSS,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

According to him, the number of users varies.<\/p>\n

\u00bbSometimes I\u2019m here alone, other times there are two or three of us. It makes no difference \u2014 we respect each other. Everyone knows not to disturb anyone and to mind their own business.\u00ab<\/p>\n

You wouldn\u2019t think the retreat room at CSS could be furnished any less. But when the University Post visits the room again during the second round, the partition and the empty whiteboard are gone.<\/p>\n

What remains is a space whose purpose would be impossible to guess if you didn\u2019t already know. And perhaps that\u2019s precisely the point.
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This was the <a href=\"https:\/\/pkunet-shared.ku.dk\/newsroom\/news\/Pages\/All-quiet-rooms-must-be-kept-neutral-.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement on KUnet<\/a> following months of public debate.<\/p>\n<p>The rooms \u2014 also referred to as quiet rooms, retreat spaces, or meditation rooms \u2014 have come under fire for being de facto gender-segregated, and for possibly being used by Muslim students to monitor each other. This was the conclusion of a Danish government-appointed Commission for the Forgotten Women’s Struggle, which was set up to tackle social control. One of its recommendations was a nationwide regulation of prayer rooms at Danish universities, and this had reignited a long-standing debate.<\/p>\n<p>A recurring theme in the criticism has been the interior design of the rooms. In addition to movable partitions \u2014 which in several rooms have been used to separate men and women \u2014 critics have pointed to carpets, books, and pamphlets associated with Islam. It was this criticism that on 1 April prompted UCPH to announce that the rooms must be cleared of personal items, and that from now on they will \u00bbbe kept free of anything not part of campus administration furnishings.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>The university will carry out regular inspections to ensure the rooms remain religiously neutral. But what does that really mean? And what exactly is changing? The University Post popped out to visit a few of the UCPH prayer rooms \u2014 before and after the clear-out.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h3>Out with the altars and the Hizb ut-Tahrir<\/h3>\n<p>Our first stop on our prayer room sightseeing tour \u2014 before the clear-out \u2014 was South Campus.<\/p>\n<p>On the far edge of the campus, in building 24, is the retreat room. On the way there, the University Post passes several group rooms, where diligent students are immersed in presentations and exam prep. The retreat room is easy to miss: To the uninitiated it might seem to be just another study room along the hallway.<\/p>\n<p>A scent of incense lingers in the air as you step inside. The floor is covered with a Persian wall-to-wall carpet, and a couple of cushions lean against one wall \u2014 as if inviting visitors to sit down and take a break.<\/p>\n<p>There is a notice board and a bookshelf on the opposite wall, offering visitors a wide range of spiritual materials: pamphlets for Christian prayer meetings are alongside flyers for retreats, yoga, meditation, and advertisements for Muslim organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Among these, the University Post also finds two pamphlets from Hizb ut-Tahrir, which have previously been debated in Danish media in connection with UCPH\u2019s prayer rooms \u2014 as well as a book by the Canadian imam Bilal Philips, who appears on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nyidanmark.dk\/da\/Ord-og-begreber\/US\/Religi%C3%B8se-forkyndere\/Religi%C3%B8se-forkyndere-med-indrejseforbud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danish government\u2019s list of banned hate preachers<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":175711,"id":175711,"title":"Bederum-3","filename":"bederum3-scaled.jpg","filesize":706452,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/ku-fjerner-alt-inventar-fra-bederum-se-foer-og-efterbillederne-her\/bederum-3\/","alt":"","author":"100","description":"","caption":"","name":"bederum-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":175663,"date":"2025-04-03 08:46:41","modified":"2025-04-03 09:00:20","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-1280x853.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum3-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"The folder underneath from Hizb ut-Tahrir has the title 'Government control of Muslim family life: The reality behind \u00bbfighting social control\u00ab'. It was released in 2014. The second folder, 'Muhammed: Biases and facts', is from 2012."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>On the floor below the bookshelf are a few prayer rugs and one yoga mat. At the opposite end of the room, a small table is covered with an embroidered piece of cloth in Middle Eastern style. On the table is a multi-armed candelabra, and the arrangement as a whole evokes the impression of an altar.<\/p>\n<p>You have no doubts that this room was set up for religious use when the University Post visited it before the clear-out.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks later, the room has changed significantly. The scent of incense is gone. The ‘altar’ with the Middle Eastern cloth and the candelabra is now just an empty table, the bookshelf is bare, and several flyers have been removed from the notice board. The prayer mats that were in the bookshelf are also gone.<\/p>\n<p>The yoga mat is still there, however, as are the floor cushions. 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They remind users that all personal belongings will be removed on 3 April as part of the university\u2019s effort to ensure that the rooms remain accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, everything proceeds as usual. The room is well attended, and the University Post notes that prayer this afternoon appears to be gender-segregated \u2014 with men on one side of a curtain, and women on the other. An additional curtain has been installed, allowing the room to be divided into three zones. However, this one is not in use while the University Post is present.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":175723,"id":175723,"title":"Bederum-9","filename":"bederum9-scaled.jpg","filesize":601921,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/ku-fjerner-alt-inventar-fra-bederum-se-foer-og-efterbillederne-her\/bederum-9\/","alt":"","author":"100","description":"","caption":"","name":"bederum-9","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":175663,"date":"2025-04-03 08:47:25","modified":"2025-04-03 09:18:07","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-1280x853.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bederum9-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"The prayer room at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences' Panum complex has not been cleared when the University Post turns up. But several notices on the wall remind users that they have to remove their belongings before Thursday 3 April."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Users can help with the clear-out by taking some of the many books from the shelves. In the boxes on the bookshelf are prayer mats and headscarves, freely available for those who do not bring their own. A shelf holding prayer stones hangs on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>One visitor, who uses the room for prayer, says to the University Post that she understands the need for the space to appear more neutral. But she regrets that she will now have to carry all her prayer items with her in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Because if the room ends up like the one at South Campus, it is likely that most of the furnishings will be removed. 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