Multiple congregations in one school

Question:
And before the Honorable Shaykh, and before them, may Allah reward them. Some schools are combined primary schools and… Yes. Some schools are combined primary schools and… Yes. And there are two congregations in them. Each stage has a congregation at the same time. So the meaning is that in the schools, although each congregation is in a designated place.

Answer:
Whenever it is possible for the worshippers to gather as one congregation, that is the preferred course. However, if necessity calls for dividing them because the place is narrow and cannot accommodate them all, then one group prays and then leaves, and the second group comes in due to the narrowness of the space; there is nothing wrong with that. But as for them dividing up the school so that each prays in a different place, that is not permissible. It is not permissible to divide them; they must pray in one place. Yes.