The earliest documented public broadcasting of the Muslim call to prayer in the U.S. took place during the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893.
As Muslims congregate in their local mosques in communal prayer for Eid, the Women’s Mosque of America, located in Los Angeles, will provide an exclusive religious space for its female congregants.
Why is the call to prayer in Islam sounded out loudly? How do you balance freedom of religion and imposing on the rights of others? Pasha answers these questions.
The public broadcast in Canada of the call to prayer during Ramadan this year caused some tensions. What the preliminary research has shown however, is that it wasn’t the noise people objected to.