From 2007 to 2009 the church organized an event called Prayer in the Square, a prayer rally which took place in Times Square.
The prayer rally was the largest of its kind for over 15 years, since the opposition to the Madrid Conference of 1991.
Political leaders worked unsuccessfully today to persuade religious leaders to cancel the prayer rally, which some feared could turn violent.
In 1954 Lancaster Park held a Roman Catholic prayer rally.
Ashbrook interrupted a teen prayer rally at the Wedgwood Baptist Church, slamming his hand on a door to make his presence known.
Only a few hundred people turned out today in gray, blustery weather for a prayer rally on the steps of the State Capitol.
Zimbabwe police claimed that the prayer rally violated a government ban on political protests.
Last May, at the end of the Ramadan, the Moslem month of fasting, the Government lifted a long ban on public prayer rallies.
The prayer rally on Wednesday night was peaceful and mournful, and traffic was tied up all over Jerusalem.
August 10, 2005 saw a massive prayer rally at the Wall.