“You can use this place as long as you want – as many Sundays as you wish. When you’re finished, just turn out the lights.”

VICTORIA, Texas – Members of the Victoria Islamic Center opened their doors last Sunday to the congregation of a neighboring church to perform their weekly services after their place of worship was destroyed in a car crash.

“We welcome you. This is your place,” Abe Ajrami, treasurer for the Islamic Center, said Sunday morning to a group of about 30 Unitarian Universalists, Victoria Advocate reported.

Members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Victoria found themselves without a place of worship after a recent car crash destroyed four walls and two church rooms.

But Sunday’s service continued as planned at an auxiliary building on the Islamic center property, where the mosque destroyed by arson in January 2017 remains under reconstruction.

After that fire, representatives of various Victoria religious groups, including the Victoria Unitarian Universalists, offered Islamic center members the keys to their places of worship.

Hosting them on Sunday, the mosque members offered their neighbors coffee, donuts, and fresh fruit.

After taking their seats in a cozy, wood-paneled room with colorful posters explaining Islamic culture, church members began their service.

“You can use this place as long as you want – as many Sundays as you wish,” Ajrami said. “When you’re finished, just turn out the lights.”