When it was time to pray, Sophronius offered ʿUmar a space in the church for the Muslims to pray, but ʿUmar refused out of fear that doing so would possibly endanger the status of the church, as future generations of Muslims may have taken that site as a permanent place of worship. In fact, it was only after the Muslims’ bloodless capture of Jerusalem and the establishment of this treaty that Jews were finally allowed to enter the city and pray at their places of worship (after being banned for much of the preceding 500 years).