Watch Replay: National Prayer Service for Donald Trump Presidential Inauguration

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Washington National Cathedral hosted the traditional interfaith National Prayer Service Saturday morning as part of the presidential inauguration for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

The 90-minute service, began Saturday at 10 a.m. at the cathedral, at 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW, will feature prayer, readings and musical performances.

Trump was sworn-in Friday as the 45th president of the United States. The events Saturday take place at the same time as thousands of women and supporters march in D.C. against the new president.

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The event is not sitting well with everyone in the religious community. A past dean of the Cathedral says the faith community should be protesting, not hosting the new president.

The Rev. Gary Hall, who served as dean of the Cathedral from 2012 to 2015, said: “I think the faith community should be a center of resistance against Donald Trump’s vision in America.” Hall told The Washington Post that he believes any participation in the inauguration "legitimizes Trump."

The current dean of the church, the Very Rev. Randolph “Randy” Marshall Hollerith, issued a statement of his own. Part of it reads: "I understand the strong disagreement many people have with the decisions to accept an invitation for the Cathedral choir to sing at the Inauguration and for the Cathedral to host the Inaugural Prayer Service. I am sorry those decisions have caused such turmoil and pain. Yet I stand by those decisions — not because we are celebrating the President-elect, but because we want to model for him, and the rest of the country, an approach to civility."

"Understand that civility does not mean endorsing a president’s views, behavior or rhetoric, nor compromising our own Christian values," Hollerith said. "Our willingness to pray and sing with everyone today does not mean we won’t join with others in protest tomorrow."

Some members of the Cathedral choir may have opted out of performing, the current dean, Hollerith said. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, which is performing at the swearing-in ceremony, will also be singing at the prayer service.

"We all know this election has been contentious and there are deep feelings being felt by Episcopalians on all sides of the issues," Presiding Bishop Michael Curry said in a statement. "We recognize that this election has been contentious, and the Episcopal Church, like our nation, has expressed a diversity of views, some of which have been born in deep pain."

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