Mass funeral prayer to be held for Bronx fire victims on Sunday

A mass funeral prayer for the 15 victims of the deadly Bronx apartment building fire will take place on Sunday, January 16.

The service is set to take place at 10 a.m. (New York time) at the Islamic Cultural Center on 371 E. 166th St.

A large memorial has grown outside the scene of the devastating fire that left 17 people dead, including eight children, and the Tremont community calling for justice.

Tijan Janneh lost his 27-year-old daughter Sera Janneh in the fire and another daughter is still in the hospital in critical condition.

“Yesterday my wife went there, she was able to open her eyes and look at them and smile,” Janneh told ABC News.

A number of residents are demanding someone be held accountable for the tragic deaths, and neighbours are coming together to demand answers.

Two of the young victims, Seydou Toure and his 5-year-old sister Haouwa Mahamadou, were remembered Wednesday during funeral services at the Timbuktu Islamic Centre on West 144th Street in Harlem.

The parents of these two victims are from Mali, and the children were buried immediately after the funeral at a cemetery in New Jersey.

The rest of the victims are members of families from the Gambia.

Burial plans remained uncertain for most of them, as some families waited for funeral homes to deliver their loved ones and, in some cases, worked to decide between burials here or having their loved ones returned to the Gambia.

Islamic law calls for bodies to be cleansed and buried as soon as possible after death, usually within 24 hours.

Here is the complete list of those who did not survive:

Ousmane Konteh

2-year-old boy

Haouwa Mahamadou

5-year-old girl

Fatoumata Dukureh

5-year-old girl