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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!
posted by mykescipark to Religion & Philosophy (8 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
I've heard call to prayer multiple times on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn, just west of the Barclay's Center. But I'm not sure of the frequency/schedule.
posted by Jego at 5:38 PM on August 6, 2015 [1 favorite]


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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