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August 6, 2015 4:43 PM Subscribe
Your friendly itinerant field recordist wants to know: do any masjids (mosques) in the greater NYC metro area regularly announce the call to prayer? And if so, do they observe the 5x-daily adhan schedule, or only certain prayer times? Thanks for any info!
I've heard call to prayer multiple times on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn
Me too! One of the mosques is Masjid al-Farooq. There are a couple of recordings on this page.
posted by three_red_balloons at 6:29 PM on August 6, 2015
Me too! One of the mosques is Masjid al-Farooq. There are a couple of recordings on this page.
posted by three_red_balloons at 6:29 PM on August 6, 2015
At Fulton and Bedford in Bed-Stuy, there's Masjid At Taqwa - I know they don't do daily calls to prayer, but I have definitely heard it before - possibly they only do it on Friday?
posted by showbiz_liz at 6:35 PM on August 6, 2015
posted by showbiz_liz at 6:35 PM on August 6, 2015
Or maybe I'm wrong? This 5 year old article suggests that they do in fact broadcast it 5 times a day - perhaps it has changed though
posted by showbiz_liz at 6:37 PM on August 6, 2015
posted by showbiz_liz at 6:37 PM on August 6, 2015
Are you making any distinction between mosques that play pre-recorded call to prayer and those that don't? Because the mosques I've heard (including the one I used to live near, on Church Ave in Brooklyn) seem to all use pre-recorded versions.
The one I lived near played them at all 5 times, I think, but from my apartment I could only really hear the ones that happened at times of day with less vehicular traffic. At traffic-heavy times, the sound would just be swallowed up, unless I was walking right by.
posted by ocherdraco at 8:07 PM on August 6, 2015
The one I lived near played them at all 5 times, I think, but from my apartment I could only really hear the ones that happened at times of day with less vehicular traffic. At traffic-heavy times, the sound would just be swallowed up, unless I was walking right by.
posted by ocherdraco at 8:07 PM on August 6, 2015
Response by poster: Ooh, that's a lovely distinction, ocherdraco. I'd love to hear them performed by an actual muezzin in the flesh ... but I suppose part of the point is to capture it ricocheting around the ambience of the location, so I'd accept a pre-recorded version in a (slightly disappointed) pinch.
posted by mykescipark at 8:12 PM on August 6, 2015
posted by mykescipark at 8:12 PM on August 6, 2015
I live on the same block as a mosque in Astoria, Queens. I've only heard the (recorded) call to prayer at the 1pm-ish time. I work from home, so I could potentially hear it any time.
posted by gaspode at 9:38 PM on August 6, 2015
posted by gaspode at 9:38 PM on August 6, 2015
I'm no expert but I'm really interested in this subject and I never heard (or heard of) a non-pre-recorded call in NYC. Most are played all 5 times without much amplification.
posted by kalapierson at 10:34 PM on August 6, 2015
posted by kalapierson at 10:34 PM on August 6, 2015
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posted by Jego at 5:38 PM on August 6, 2015 [1 favorite]