Personal Wake Up Service

My day started at 5:14am as the Muezzin began to broadcast the call to prayer from hundred's of Minarets across Istanbul. It is impossible to escape the thousands of speakers, each trying to outdo the other. It is an exotic, yet, peaceful sound.
The faithful will rise in their homes, complete their ablutions, and pray facing Mecca.
This call to prayer will take place 5 times today....Broadcast from giant speakers mounted high on the century's old Minarets scattered throughout this city of 16.5 million people.
In historical days, the muezzin, would climb to the top of the Minaret and sing out the call to pray personally. Today some are done through pre-recorded Azan's and some are still sung live...via a PA system.
So, I joined them this morning....I prayed with my new countrymen...then went promptly back to bed..(like most of them).

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