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Unified call to prayer will be first activated in Greater Cairo
Image via Wikipedia For more than 13 decades, the call to prayer has begun five times a day via microphones attached to Egypt’s mosques. Many of muezzins (the person who recites the azan or calls to prayer) have imperfect voices thus creating a citywide cacophony while reciting the azan. Although each of the five prayers... »
Islamic monuments to reopen in Cairo
Image by future15pic via Flickr The Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the reopening of five Islamic monuments in the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar area of Cairo. The Al-Imam mosque, the Al-Layth mosque, the Al-Set Meska mosque, the Ali Labib house and the well zone of Youssef at the Salah El-Din Citadel have all been undergoing restoration work, which cost... »
Isis an influence on modern religions
Image via Wikipedia According to Egyptian mythology, Isis was the spiritual mother of every pharaoh, but experts say her influence is still seen in the Christian icons of the faithful wife and loving mother. She was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, the goddess of the Overarching Sky and was born... »
Egypt's Coptic pope bans phone confessions
Image via Wikipedia Pope Shenuda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark has banned the faithful from confessing their sins to priests over the telephone because intelligence agents might be listening in. He also said confessions over the Internet were invalid because they might be read... »
The music of Islam
Image via Wikipedia “God is great. I testify there is no god but God. . . . Make haste toward prayers.” The prayer caller’s chant is heard five times a day; from birth to death it is the music of Islam, lingering in the air, reminding the faithful to prostrate themselves before God. Morsi Abdel Fattah has... »
