New flats for elderly people have opened in Bristol - with toilets that do not face Mecca.
The Muslim-friendly Very Sheltered Housing (VSH) scheme in Lincoln Street, Lawrence Hill, also includes beds that allow a tenant's feet to point in the right direction.
Lincoln Gardens cost more than £6 million, has 55 bedrooms and was put up by the city council and the Guinness Trust on the site of the former Wainbrook elderly persons' home.
It includes 19 flats suitable for "tenants from the Muslim community" following local consultation.
A council spokesman said: "The toilets in these flats are orientated so that the user doesn't face Mecca."
Beds are placed so that feet are facing south east and not north west."
There is a door between the kitchen and living room plus extra ventilation in the kitchen to stop smells escaping."
And plumbing has been carried out to allow for the addition of a bidet or a shower head to allow the washing of the toilet bowl."
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