Dought & clear, - Praying in a room in which there are images.

Is it permissible to pray in a room in which there are images?
Praise be to Allaah.
The most correct view is that it is not permissible to pray in a room
in which images of animate beings are hanging, on the basis of several
reports, including the following:
The hadeeth of Ibn 'Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him), who said:
the Prophet(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "The
angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or images."(Agreed
upon).
The hadeeth of 'Aa'ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) who said:
"The Messenger of Allaah(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
returned from a journey and I had covered an alcove with a blanket on
which there were images. When the Messenger of Allaah(peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) saw it, he tore it down and said,
'The people who will be most severely punished on the Day of
Resurrection will be those who imitate the creation of
Allaah.'"(Agreed upon).
The hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) who said:
the Messenger of Allaah(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
said: "Jibreel came to me and said: 'I came to you yesterday and
nothing prevented me from entering except that there was a statue by
your door, and there was a curtain in your house with images on it,
and there was a dog in the house. So tell someone to cut the head off
the statue by your door, so it will look like a tree; tell someone to
cut up the curtain and make it into floor-cushions that will be
stepped on; and tell someone to put the dog outside.'" So the
Messenger of Allaah(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did
that.(Narrated by Abu Dawood, al-Tirmidhi and Ahmad).
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) gave a
brief answer to this question, when he was asked: is it permissible to
pray in synagogues and churches where there are images, or not? Can we
say that they are the houses of Allaah, or not? He replied: they are
not the houses of Allaah, for the houses of Allaah are the mosques.
These (churches etc.) are houses in which people express their
disbelief (kufr) in Allaah. Even though Allaah may be mentioned in
them, the house is the same as its occupants, and their occupants are
kuffaar, so they are the houses of worship of the kuffaar.
As regards praying in them, there are three scholarly views in the
Madhhab of Ahmad and others: absolute prohibition, which is the view
of Maalik; absolute permission, which is the view of some of the
companions of Ahmad; and the third view, which is the correct view and
was narrated from 'Umar ibn al-Khattaab and others, and from Ahmad and
others. This view states that if there are images in the church, we
should not pray there, because the angels do not enter a house in
which there are images, and because the Prophet(peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) did not enter the Ka'bah until the images inside
it had been wiped out. Similarly, 'Umar said: we do not enter their
churches if there are images inside.
Churches are like mosques that are built over graves. Inal-Saheehaynit
says that the Prophet(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was
told about a church in Ethiopia, and the adornments and images inside
it. He said: "When a righteous man among them dies, they build a
mosque (place of worship) over his grave and put those images there.
They will be the most evil of people with Allaah on the Day of
Resurrection." But the Sahaabah did pray in churches in which there
were no images. And Allaah knows best.