Residents of the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya inaugurated what was described as the highest minaret in Jerusalem on Friday. Activist Omar Atiyeh, who was among a number of locals ...

Minaret, where muezzin would usually stand, still upright but appears precarious A mosque destroyed in Israeli strikes during the conflict lies in ruin, amid a temporary truce between the Palestinian ...

To the editor: As The Times notes, the muezzin’s chant, “broadcast over a loudspeaker from the mosque’s minaret, is a familiar sound throughout the Islamic world, from the giant mosques of Cairo, ...

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Muezzins are now allowed to broadcast calls for prayer once a week from Cologne’s mosques. The mayor calls it an expression of freedom and diversity. Benedict Neff, head of NZZ's Feuilleton department ...

The bill, which limits the volume of the muezzin’s call to prayer and the loudspeakers of all religious institutions during the day, came after several hours of heated debate. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A bill ...

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KHAN YOUNIS (Reuters) - Balanced on a steep slab of fissured concrete with rods of twisted metal poking out and the remnants of a dome slanted at a 45-degree angle behind him, a young muezzin in a ...