Notre Dame and Al-Aqsa

I'm not making any equivalency or contrast in these tragedies, but it's so sad that the fire Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem also had a fire yesterday, with less damage than Notre Dame, in the roof of the prayer room. Al-Aqsa is the third holiest place in Islam, after the Ka'ba in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina. As we've been seeing, too, in the burning of African American churches, houses of worship and prayer are deeply meaningful to their respective communities, and in their historical connections as well, which differ depending on the structure. Their damage or destruction is heartbreaking. (Again, I'm not making equivalencies, just thinking out loud generally about different experiences of emotional trauma within religious communities.)