[Avodah] Which way to Jerusalem?

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 07:51 +0200, Ben Waxman wrote:
> Actually what I have seen a few times (at the Kotel and in shuls in 
> Jerusalem) are minyanim where some people face the front of the shul and few 
> face some other direction (claiming that this is the "more correct" 
> direction). I never knew if this was something of such import that it worth 
> being poresh from the tzibbur.

R' David Yosef (Halacha Berura 94:6) poskins that if the heichal is on
the wrong side of the beit kenesset, and the tzibbur is davening to face
it (so they're all facing the wrong direction, in violation of the
halacha to daven facing Eretz Yisrael/Yerushalyim/Beit Hamikdash/Kodeh
HaKodeshim) then those who want to be correct should not orient their
bodies differently from the tzibbur, rather they should orient their
bodies to the heichal, and orient their faces towards Eretz
Yisrael/Yerushalyim/Beit Hamikdash/Kodeh HaKodeshim.