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Sound of innovation: Mumbai mosques go digital with 'azan app' to overcome loudspeaker curbs

MUMBAI: In the backdrop of curbs over the use of loudspeakers, half-a-dozen mosques in Mumbai have registered on a dedicated mobile phone application which relays the 'azan', or call to prayer, ...
Dawn

Swedish mosque gets green light for Azan

STOCKHOLM, April 11: A mosque in a Stockholm suburb has been given the green light to issue Friday prayer calls from its minaret, the first mosque to do so in Sweden, police said on Thursday. “I'm ...
Poynter

FALSE: Azan (islamic prayer call) is said from an old mosque in Granada for the first time after 500 years because of COVID-19.

The #CoronavirusFacts database records fact-checks published since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic and its consequences are constantly evolving and data that was accurate weeks or ...
Eurasianet

Uzbekistan Allows Call to Prayer on Loudspeakers

The capital of Uzbekistan has for the first time in more than a decade begun ringing to the sound of the call to prayer. The last time the Kukcha mosque in Tashkent blared the summons over its ...