Orlando International Airport opening prayer room for Muslim travelers

Accommodating Muslim travelers, a Florida international airport announced plans to build a prayer room for Muslims.

With a cost of $250,000, a reflection room will be built at Orlando International airport where before Muslim travelers used to pray in public or in the waiting areas.

Muslim travelers also used to pray in a chapel tucked away on Airside B.

The prayer room will include an ablution area, or clean zone, carry-on-luggage bins and shoe racks, as well as directional signs for North, South, East and West.

Orlando airport is not the first American airport to dedicate a prayer room to Muslim travelers.

Two years ago, San Francisco International Airport has specified a special place for ablution and prayers.