Abstract:
Audio recordings from 10 locations in Cairo representing the city-wide call to
prayer (over 30,000 muezzins reciting each of the 5 times per day) as heard from
each area/neighbourhood, with supporting photographs of the locations and what
is seen from said location.
Description:
Five times a day in the 83 square mile city of Cairo, over 30,000 muezzins call out the adhan, or call to prayer, calling believers to come and to pray. This Dhurh (mid-day) adhan was recorded at Al-Azhar Park in the neighbourhood of Islamic Cairo. The length of the recording is almost 8 minutes, because the muezzins all begin a few seconds apart. The muezzins calling from far away mosques and mosques closest to the park can be heard: please control the volume accordingly.
