A Bronx community gathered Sunday to pay its final respects to perished loved ones, a week after a fire filled a high-rise apartment building with thick, suffocating smoke that killed 17 people, including eight children. The mass funeral capped a week of prayers and mourning within a close-knit community hailing from West Africa, most with connections to Gambia. The deceased ranged in age from 2 to 50. Entire families were killed, including a family of five. Others would leave behind orphaned children. There were 15 caskets in all that lined the front of the prayer hall Sunday. “One week they were with us … now they’re gone,” said Musa Kabba, the imam at the Masjid-Ur-Rahmah mosque, where many of the deceased had prayed. Earlier in the week, burial services were held for two children at a mosque in Harlem. 📸: @gettyimages and @apnews