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  2. Loudspeakers in mosques - Wikipedia

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    Loudspeakers are sometimes also used inside mosques to deliver sermons or for prayer. [3] Electrically amplified adhans have become commonplace in countries such as Turkey and Morocco, [4] whereas in others such as the Netherlands only 7 to 8% of all mosques employ loudspeakers for the call to prayer. [5]

  3. Naqus - Wikipedia

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    Mohammad therefore decided between a fire, a bell, a Jewish horn and the nāqūs for the muezzin's call to prayer . [2] Apparently, in the early days of Fustat, the Muslims struck the nāqūs as an early-morning call to prayer. [3] The sound of the nāqūs as a call to prayer was heard along with the crowing of the cocks. [4]

  4. Call to prayer - Wikipedia

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    A call to prayer is a summons for participants of a faith to attend a group worship or to begin a required set of prayers. The call is one of the earliest forms of telecommunication, communicating to people across great distances. All religions have a form of prayer, and many major religions have a form of the call to prayer. [1]

  5. Adhan - Wikipedia

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    The call to prayer is said after entering the time of prayer. The muezzin usually stands during the call to prayer. [37] It is common for the muezzin to put his hands to his ears when reciting the adhan. Each phrase is followed by a longer pause and is repeated one or more times according to fixed rules.

  6. Great Mosque of Fes el-Jdid - Wikipedia

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    The mosque was founded around 1276 by the Marinid sultan Abu Yusuf, at the same time as he founded the new royal city Fes el-Jdid. [3] [2] [4]: 310 (Fes el-Jdid was created as a fortified palace and administrative city, separate from Fes el-Bali (old Fes), from which the Marinid dynasty ruled over Morocco. [1])

  7. Minaret - Wikipedia

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    The formal function of a minaret is to provide a vantage point from which the muezzin can issue the call to prayer, or adhan. [3] The call to prayer is issued five times each day: dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset, and night. [7] In most modern mosques, the adhān is called from the musallah (prayer hall) via microphone to a speaker system on ...

  8. Dar al-Muwaqqit - Wikipedia

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    The Dar al-Muwaqqit of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (marked by the double-arched window overlooking the courtyard). A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper, an officer charged with maintaining the correct times of prayer and communicating them to the muezzin (the person ...

  9. Muezzin - Wikipedia

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    The muezzin (/ m (j) u ˈ ɛ z ɪ n /; [1] Arabic: مُؤَذِّن) is the person who proclaims the call to the daily prayer five times a day (Fajr prayer, Zuhr prayer, Asr prayer, Maghrib prayer and Isha prayer) at a mosque from the minaret. [2] [3] The muezzin plays an important role in ensuring an accurate prayer schedule for the Muslim ...