Is it permissible to pray in a room located beneath an upstairs bathroom in a reinforced concrete building, knowing that the ceiling of the room is the floor of the bathroom, and there is no direct contact between them?
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There is no impediment to praying in the aforementioned room as long as the worshipper is not touching impurity. If there is a barrier between him and the impurity, then there is no harm. It is disliked to establish a mosque beneath a restroom due to the disrespect it entails towards prayer.
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