Sunday, September 27, 2020

Prayer March 2020: Tens Of Thousands Attend March In Washington, DC

Tens of Thousands Attend Prayer March 2020: See Crowd Size Photos & Turnout





On Saturday, September 26, Franklin Graham led the Prayer March 2020 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern starting at the Lincoln Memorial. How many people attended the nearly two-mile march in Washington, D.C.? Estimates ranged from tens of thousands to 50,000. Here’s a look at crowd size photos and videos from the event.

About 55,000 people said they planned to attend the march, WUSA 9 reported. Here’s a video from the event, showing the crowd where Michael W. Smith led a song. Sean Feucht, a musician who attended the event, said in his post that there were more than 50,000 in attendance.

The Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission estimated the crowd at 50,000:

Here’s another video showing the crowd:

The march started at the Lincoln Memorial, proceeded around the Washington Monument, and ended at the U.S. Capitol, according to the Prayer March website’s map. The webpage describes the march as a prayerful event and not a political event designed to support any particular party:

The march was about 1.8 miles long.

The march’s website notes: “Participants are expected to follow applicable health and safety protocols, including the use of social distancing and a face mask, while in public and to monitor government orders that may impact travel. Anyone with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 should refrain from participating in person.”

Photos and videos from the march indicate that quite a few people were not wearing masks and no one was social distancing, despite the advocation to do so on the website.

Jerry Prevo of Liberty University shared this video showing buses filled with people attending the event:


This photo shows the crowd filling the National Mall:

You can see the crowd at the National Mall in this photo too, shared by Phil Bryant on Twitter.

The National Park Service no longer provides official crowd estimates of events that take place. They stopped releasing estimates ever since a dispute about how many attended a Million Man March in 1995. The Park Service was threatened with a lawsuit when they estimated 400,000 showed up to the Million Man March, while organizers believed that one million were there. After that, they stopped publicly releasing estimates.

In the video below, you can see people marching along the National Mall. The U.S. Capitol was the final destination.

 






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1 comment:

  1. CindySeptember 27, 2020 at 9:20 AM

    Thanks Scott,
    It was great...praying the Lord heard His people... here is the one for Jonathan Cahn also there at DC too..so there are 2 videos.
    The Return
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8whU4HxyjA

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