DURHAM, N.C. -- Two days after announcing that Islamic students would be broadcasting a weekly call to prayer from the Duke Chapel bell tower, Duke University officials abandoned that plan Thursday, ...
Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim call to prayer, to be broadcast from mosques five times a day. In April 2023, the Minneapolis City Council ...
For the first time this Ramadan, the Muslim call to prayer is being broadcast from mosques onto the streets of Astoria, Queens. For this first time, the Islamic call to prayer is being broadcast in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Muslim call to prayer will ring out more freely in New York City under guidelines announced Tuesday by Mayor Eric Adams, which he said should foster a spirit of inclusivity. Under ...
Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban announced a new initiative Tuesday to support the Islamic call to public prayer. The Adhan is a religious chant that is typically played out loud in ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The chant in Arabic blasted from rooftop loudspeakers, drowning out both the growl of traffic from nearby interstates and the chatter and clinking glasses on the patio of the dive ...
New NYPD rules will allow mosques in New York City to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer without a permit. Under the rules change, broadcast of the adhan — as the chant is called in Arabic — will be ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Muslim call to prayer can now be heard within shouting distance of any mosque across the five boroughs under new guidelines announced Tuesday by Mayor Eric Adams. Mosques no ...
Mosques in Minneapolis will soon be allowed to publicly broadcast the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, five times a day following a unanimous vote by the Minneapolis City Council to amend what ...